Why not sit South and try today’s offering as a declarer-play problem?
When this deal cropped up in the U.S. Seniors Trials, North opened one heart and was then confronted with an awkward rebid. Playing a forcing no-trump, he could either significantly overbid with a raise to two no-trump or invent a club suit. South should have bid two spades now to show a sound club raise, but he chose two no-trump instead, and North had more than enough to raise to game. Now, play it on the spade nine lead.
You put up the spade queen from dummy, perhaps more in hope than in expectation, and top East’s king with the ace. You need seven tricks from the minors, so you continue by unblocking the top clubs. Next comes the diamond queen, covered by East.
If you were to take the diamond ace now, you would have to rely on the diamond nine coming down since you have no late entry to your hand. It is better to duck the first diamond, ensuring your game (since spades are under control) as long as diamonds are no worse than 4-2. You take the heart shift and then run your minor-suit winners.
At the table, declarer took the diamond ace at trick four, cutting himself off from the fourth diamond trick in hand — down one, and credit to Mark Lair, West, for finding the spade lead.
(As an aside, the reason South can rebid an artificial two spades is that he has denied spade length. This lets him raise clubs directly with shape and make the artificial call with a high-card raise).