The House at Pooh Corner, Chapter VI

Poohsticks

“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.”

Choose who you’re playing with, tap the bridge where you want to drop your stick, and watch the other side to see whose comes out first. The ripples show where the river runs fastest. Keep away from the swirl.

Christopher Robin and Piglet leaning on the rails of the wooden bridge, looking down at the river.

Tap the bridge to drop your stick.

Eeyore floating on his back down the river, legs in the air.

“A very—big—grey——Oh, no, it isn’t, it’s Eeyore.” And out floated Eeyore.

Eeyore, who had never played it before, won more times than anybody else. Afterwards he went off to tell Tigger “How to Win at Poohsticks, which you do by letting your stick drop in a twitchy sort of way, if you understand what I mean, Tigger.”

From The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, with decorations by E. H. Shepard (1928), public domain in the United States.