For teachers.

Something to send your students

You teach the game. Your students leave the class and want to keep playing, and they want to play it your way. Canastette is a place for that practice between lessons, with your rules, and a free scorer for their real table. There is nothing for you to sign up for, nothing to buy, and no business account. You send a link, and that is all.

Make a rules card, share it by link

A rules card holds every setting that groups argue about, each with a plain one-line explanation and the standard marked. Set yours once: how you open, how you handle the minimum, the house rules you teach. Then share it. Canastette gives you a link, and you can send it in a message, an email or on a class sheet.

A student taps the link. Her scorer and her practice games use your card from then on, and she can see what yours changes from the standard. The card stays yours: only you can change it, and when you do, her copy can catch up. Nobody can list or search for cards, so it is shared only with the people you send it to. You can stop sharing it at any time.

Practice between lessons

• Practice games with a coach. A partner and opponents who play like people, at four levels, and a coach who explains the why: pick or draw, when to open, which discard is safe. It is there at midnight on a Tuesday when you are not. Your students can turn the help down as they improve.
• Learn. Eleven short lessons, plain answers to the questions that come up at a table, and drills, including counting a finished hand.
• Today's deal. The same deal for everyone each day. Play one hand, then see how you scored and what the coach would have done. It is free and needs no account.

At the table, free

The scorer is free for good, with no account. It scores modern canasta, Hand and Foot and classic canasta under the card in use, shows each team's minimum for the next hand, and lets the table fix any hand. A scoreboard link lets everyone at the table follow along on their own phone. For a class or a club, there is the club night: fair tables and partners for up to 24 people, who's in, standings and a room board for the front of the room.

Teaching live

A friends' table can show every hand to everyone seated, so you can teach a beginner live, in the same room or over a video call. Hands at a teaching table don't count in anyone's record. Joining a table is free for your students; hosting one needs the full game.

What we ask, and what we don't

We don't ask you to endorse anything, and Canastette is independent: it isn't connected to any canasta league, publisher or app, and it doesn't use anyone's rulebook text. The rules are in our own words, and where players disagree, it is a setting, so your way works. Your card is never listed, published or used for anything but the students you send it to. We send no marketing email to you or your students.

If a rule is wrong, or a lesson says something you would teach differently, tell us. the You tab → Help → Suggest a feature, or support@judedon.com. Teachers are how most people learn this game, so we want it to match what you teach.

The price, for your students

Pay once, no subscription, no ads. What is free stays free. The full game, with unlimited practice games and hosting, is a single payment, with a lower founding price at the start. Everything we add later is included, and nothing anyone buys is ever moved behind a new tier. The app's page has the details.