Consider the diagramed deal, which offers three possible slam contracts.

The result was a perfectly good slam contract with 21 high-card points in the combined hands.

Successful play of this slam contract needs careful counting.

Like the Lightner double of a slam contract, it suggested an unusual lead.

The result was a shaky slam contract with one point fewer than the traditional requirements.

And two pairs were successful in six hearts, the second-best slam contract.

Vanderbilt was South and reached six spades, the best slam contract.

On the diagrammed deal Schwartz brought home a difficult slam contract.

He reached a good slam contract with limited values after bidding that looks natural, but was not.

There are many roads to this slam contract, and a modern partnership might follow the route shown.