The role of the director in a duplicate game is very important and even more demanding in a home setting where the players may not be as familiar with duplicate bridge. Here's a list of the more important tasks.

• Physical setup prior to arrival of players Have card tables and chairs set up as well as the various pieces of paper mentioned in other sections such as the movement sheets, team score sheets, player sign-in sheets, etc. Additionally have 12 duplicate boards loaded with randomly generated hands.
• Insure that all are familiar with how to score the hands and the process of playing the cards in a manner that maintains the hands for subsequent play.
• Insure that all players and boards move to the correct tables after the completion of each round.
• Address any issues regarding how to score any particular hand.
• Resolve issues in any consistent manner when a player finds that his hand contains more or less than 13 cards. Simply have the short player pull a card at random from the hand with an extra card. Since this occurrence is all too common, direct all players to count their cards before placing them back in the board and also upon taking their hand out of the board so that any error can be corrected as soon as possible.
• Be prepared to hand issues such as one player having to leave early. Let the dummy from another table play the hand.
• Complete the total scoring process at the conclusion.