How It Works
How Catanzee fits into a real tabletop session.
Catanzee is designed to sit beside a real game night, not replace it. One host screen stays visible on the table for dice, turn order, player status, and distribution charts. Each player can optionally join from a phone for a private digital hand.
The host screen
The main browser window handles turn flow, large roll UI, connected player seats, card counts, and long-run number distribution. It is meant to be readable from across the table.
The player phone
Each player phone becomes a compact private hand. Players can add cards from the bank, discard to the bank, commit purchases, and complete trades without exposing their hand to the whole table.
1. Start a game
The host enters the player list and starts a new table. Catanzee creates a live session that can track rolls, archived history, and optional synced hands.
2. Register seats
Catanzee walks through player registration from left to right. The active player seat shows a QR code until that player joins from a phone or the host skips digital hands.
3. Roll through turns
The host uses the large roll button or the space bar. The wheel advances, the active player changes, the new total is saved, and the live chart updates immediately.
4. Manage cards privately
Players use plus and minus controls above each resource stack to stage card changes. Nothing moves until commit, which gives players a clear chance to confirm what they are taking from or returning to the bank.
5. Keep the game moving
If a seven is rolled, Catanzee marks any player above the discard threshold and blocks further play until the required discards are finished. This keeps shared state aligned.
6. Review history later
Finished games can be archived. Catanzee keeps overall roll statistics, frozen past-game snapshots, and account-scoped history so returning players can see long-run patterns.