Declarer’s side bid Three and won it clean, 55 Card Points of the 94. But partway through the hand, a defender’s Skíz caught the Declarer’s XXI in the same trick: a quiet, unannounced XXI-catch.
Who writes what?
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Declarer’s side wins the contract: each writes 1, the value of Three. But the Skíz that did the catching belongs to the defenders, so the XXI-catch bonus is theirs regardless of who won the overall contract: each defender adds 21. The Declarer’s side goes home with their 1 Victory Point and the season’s newest Polgármester’s hat.