Here is any easy deal.  Well maybe! East is dealer.

 

WEST                           EAST
S) A542                         S) 7
H) AQ5                          H) KJ1098
D) KJ7                           D) A63
C) K93                           C) AQJ10

 

Just for the exercise, how would you bid these hands?  East has 17 points and West has 17 points.  This adds up to slam but 16-17 opposite 16-17 are often the hardest to bid slam.  In spite of the flat hand, West is good enough to jump-shift after East opens 1 heart.  That should get you to a small slam.

WEST                         EAST
                                   1H
2S                               3C
3H                               4NT
5H                               6H

 

Of course 4NT is Blackwood.  Making this slam is easy.  But say you were more aggressive and landed in 7 hearts.  You are declarer East and South leads the spade king.  How would you play it?  Take some time to think about it before reading on to find out how clever I am.

 

There are 12 tricks off the top.  You could finesse diamonds for the 13th for a 50-50 chance.  However you can get better odds elsewhere.  Play this as a dummy reversal.  Take the spade ace and ruff a spade.  Draw two rounds of trump, ending in dummy.  If trump splits 3-2 you are home free.  Ruff two more hearts then draw the last trump with dummy’s ace.  However, if trump splits 4-1 you will have to fall back on the diamond finesse.  You have increased your odds to about 80%.