Poohsticks is a game first mentioned as being played by Winnie the Pooh and friends in the book The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne. It is an extremely simple game, played on a bridge over a river. Each participant drops a stick on the upstream side of the bridge; the player whose stick first appears on the other side is the winner.

The Poohsticks Bridge is a bridge named after the game, located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, England.

The World Poohsticks Championships take place annually at Day's Lock, near Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The event was started in 1983 as a fund raising event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The lockkeeper put out a box of sticks and a collection box and it soon became an annual event. It originally took place in January but in the icy weather of 1997 it was moved to March. It is now organised by the Rotary Club of Sinodun.

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• River Thames information, including the Poohsticks championship