APINYA'T is a game for 4 to 6 players created by Castellers de Badalona (Human Tower team of Badalona, Catalonia, EU) after their training sessions and published in N3 issue of "Badiu Casteller", the offical magazine of the team (Winter 2000).
APINYA'T gives you the chance to lead a human tower team, from its first trainings onwards, with the aim to reach the highest towers.

This game is a simple Human Tower ("Castellers") simulation.

You go round a board trying to get 6 different human resources needed to do (higher) Towers:
.Canalla (kids) you need agile and bold kids to climb to the highest levels.
.Tronc (trunk, literally "tree log") you need agile and strong people to buid the central part of the tower.
·Pinya (base, literally "pine cone") you need strong and resitant people to support both the "Tronc" and the "Canalla".
·Gralles (musicians who play strident trumpets, called "gralles", and drums) you need a strident sound/melody to coordinate the efforts of 100-600 persones (who at the base have to be head down!).
·Tècnica (technical direction of the team) you need bold but sensible people to evaluate what Tower can be built, with whom, and when.
·Junta (administrative direction of the team) you need many people to organize contracts, transports, logistics, training grouds, advertising & merchandising...

The board has positive (and negative) boxes which help you gain (and lose) assets.
The board itself represents a Human Tower: Kids assets are to be gained (and lost) on top, above Trunk. Trunk above the Base. The Base is flanked by Musicians and the Technical direction. Near the Base is also the Administratve direction.
There are 6 branches where you can decide wheter you go slow (to increase the chances to get the asset you're more close to) or you go fast (to get another asset).
There are some special boxes which allow you to manage more efficiently your assets:
·Festa (party) allows you to trade Admin to get Base or Musicians
·Assemblea (assembly) to trade Admin to Tech or viceversa
·Assaig (training) to trade Tech to get Kids, Trunk or Base
·Diada (performance) to trade Admin or Tech to get Kids, Trunk or Base
There are also some Rest boxes (you lose a turn).
When you fall on the same box as another player there is interaction (which can benefit both players or just one, depending on the level of towers each currently builds).

As you get more assets, you increase the level of the towers built. The winner is the player who can do the highest towers at game end (in case of a draw, you count who was the first to reach the different levels).