Perhaps not for Novices


A K Q
Q J 3
A
J 9 7 5 3 2
5 4 3 2 J 10 8 7
8 4 9 7 5
Q J 8 7 2 K 10 6 5
K 8 6 4
9 6
A K 10 6 2
9 4 3 Opening lead: Q of diamonds
A Q 10 Contract: 6 hearts

A little bit of a tricky element here. Perhaps the hand is not for novices to bring home swimmingly. But it shouldn't throw anyone above that level. Spades are solid, and whether the club hook is on or off is beyond your control. So you want to make sure you take care of all the low diamonds. Well, you've only got two.
Actually, the cards are benignly placed, and if you just avoid the things you shouldn't do, you'll amost willy-nilly fall into a successfully completed contract.
Most of all, you don't want to take the club hook after exhausting dummy of trump, unless the closed hand is also devoid of diamonds. You don't want to cash out entries needlessly, and you don't want to finesse the 10 of clubs when you can get the save effect out of finessing the queen. The reason for this last caution is that if the queen loses to the king, you may want to overtake the 10 with the jack later. Which you can't do if you don't have the 10.
I would say this is the safest line, though I'm giving up all hope of an overtrick: Come to the ace of hearts at trick two, ruff a diamond, cash the queen of hearts, come to the ace of clubs, draw trump, cash spades, sluffing the last diamond and now concede a trick to the king of clubs.
You could vary that a little in a play for an overtrick, and trusting trump will split 3-2, by overtaking the queen of hearts, drawing the third round, go to spades to sluff the last diamond, and now you're on a finesse for an overtrick. I'm not sure what the odds mavens would say about this. Perhaps they'd say it depended on the scoring system (this was an IMP game).
One other way: take the club hook at trick 2. This works nicely with a king doubleton in either hand, not so nicely on a 3-1 club split. If West wins with 3 clubs, he can give his partner a ruff. However, it looks as though declarer would be in pretty good shape if the finesse holds.
Only two declarers went down here, both of them soi-disant advanced players. The first one that I looked at followed a behavior that I've had cause to speak of before and is so frequent that it has now become almost amusing. That is to say, she absolutely rushed to wipe out entries to dummy in this manner: At trick two, the ace of spades, then the Q J of hearts, then a finesse of the ten of clubs into the king. To be sure, the coup de grace came from her LHO who now led a spade, cutting off all communication after trump are out, a coup that would not have been possible if the ace of spades hadn't been cashed.
Lemme go over briefly. Why the ace of spades? It's a totally inexplicable play. It doesn't change the lead, it's a trick she's always got access to. It just made no sense. The Q J of hearts? She just might have wanted to save them for communication. And of course, there's just no point in the 10 of clubs when you can see that you just might want to overtake the 10 on the third round of clubs after losing a finesse playing the queen.
Declarer now came to the queen of clubs, ruffed a diamond with dummy's last trump sluffed the last diamond on the last spade in dummy . . . and had no way to return to the closed hand! (She led a club which was ruffed, of course.) Do you see how she could now use hearts for communication if she hadn't cashed them out? She'd ruff with the queen, after getting a lucky 2-2 split in clubs, which she wouldn't have needed if she'd finessed the queen of clubs, cash the jack of hearts, cash the last spade, sluffing the last diamond, and now come to the A K 10 of hearts. So it wasn't the ace of spades alone or the Q J of trump alone or the 10 of clubs alone, but by combining all these she managed to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear.
The other declarer didn't even give himself that much chance. After the diamond opening lead, he led three rounds of trump -- he's now wide open in diamonds -- cashed three spades, sluffing a diamond and now on a losing club hook, lost a diamond for down one also. Advanced.