[WellSpyder]

When did you last see a trick made up of 5, 4, 3 and 2 of the same suit in that order? (I imagine 2, 3, 4, then 5 might be quite a bit more common.)

This was a hand from Division 2 of England's Premier League yesterday:

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2♠ was a constructive weak 2 (about 8-11 HCP). 4N = RKCB(?), 5♦ = 1 or 4 key cards. 6♦ was not completely obvious, but intended as choice of slams and south eventually passed. Now west came up with a Lightner double requesting a ♥ lead - a particularly dubious choice given that he would actually have been on lead against 6♦! North decided 6♥ might be safer, and east doubled for his own reasons (perhaps he was confident ♦Q would be a trick).

West led ♠J, and south led a "low" ♥. When west carelessly played low himself, he found ♥5 wasn't so low after all when it won the trick! Note that ♥5 wasn't just led for effect. If declarer leads ♥10 west might realise that he ought to go up with ♥A! Now he can return a ♣. Declarer's only way back to hand to repeat the ♥ finesse is by overtaking ♠K. But now there is no way back to dummy to cash the winning ♦s after establishing the suit with the marked ruffing finesse...

[Cyberyeti]

Not seen that before but have seen a first round of trumps going 2-3-4-discard, also the most bizarre of my life, the last 2 tricks being won by declarer's 5-4 of trumps with a defender following twice.

Nice hand.

[billw55]

I once led low from dummy, ducked in hand, then waited for LHO's return. There was quite a tank before I realized that he had also ducked and I was still on lead. Don't remember the exact spots though.

[661_Pete]

I came close to that in a hand I've posted about on this forum, where a trick went 5-(discard)-2-3. If you have a long solid suit down to the 4 or 5, it's not going to be that uncommon. In the OP's hand, clearly if declarer's intention is to finesse against ♥Q, he has no need to overtake the 5...