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Word of the day - Oct 15: Poohsticks
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Poohsticks n 🔊

  1. (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.

☞ Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the first publication of A. A. Milne’s book Winnie-the-Pooh.

Illustration for Poohsticks

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Poohsticks being played on the “Poohsticks Bridge” in Ashdown Forest

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/October_15

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