Poohsticks

English

From Pooh +‎ sticks, coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) in his book The House at Pooh Corner (1928): see the quotation.

Poohsticks

(games) A game for two or more players in which each player throws a stick into a river from the upstream side of a bridge crossing it, the winner being the player whose stick emerges first on the other side.
- 1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins in”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 94:
  And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. […] Now one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Roo were all playing Poohsticks together.

game for two or more players in which each player throws a stick into a river from the upstream side of a bridge