This invention comprises a games apparatus on which a game involving strength, skill and agility is playable by two or more opposing players who, in playing the game, must struggle against one another as they attempt to score points by directing a playing piece on a playing field into a designated scoring zone or zones. The apparatus comprises a playing field, on which a playing piece is movable, incorporating one or more scoring zones per player, together with one or more handles per player extending outwardly of the playing field manipulable to cause the playing field to be tilted from the horizontal, characterized in that the playing field is tiltably mounted on a pedestal, which pedestal is adapted to be fixedly mounted to a base at least during use of the games apparatus, the base being configured and arranged to, in play, carry substantially the entire weight of the players and to enable all the players to each exert up to their full strength in attempting to achieve tilting of the playing field without there being substantial risk of altering the relative orientation of the pedestal and the base.
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