Dappen — Puzzle M3

Round two, seven players. Five players have already passed. The sixth, second-to-last to speak, held no trump stop and was drafted by the second-to-last duty: the Dapp is automatically theirs, and the round ends there. You would have been the seventh and final speaker, and your hand is enormous: Skus, XXI, I, XX, XIX, K♥.

dappen Puzzle #237

Do you call "Challenge!"?

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Answer

You cannot. A duty-drafted Dapper can never be Challenged, full stop, however monstrous your own hand looks. And there is nothing left to interrupt in any case: the drafted claim ends round two the instant it happens, exactly like a voluntary one, so the bidding is already over before your seat is ever reached. Save this hand for a round where the door is actually open.