PoohStick 1.0


Category: Games
Price: $0.99 (iTunes)

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PoohStick - play Poohsticks on your iPhone.

"Pooh had just come to the bridge; and not looking where he was going, he tripped over something, and the fir-cone jerked out of his paw into the river. 'Bother,' said Pooh, as it floated slowly under the bridge, and he went back to get another fir-cone which had a rhyme to it. But then he thought that he would just look at the river instead, because it was a peaceful sort of day, so he lay down and looked at it, and it slipped slowly away beneath him, and suddenly, there was his fir-cone slipping away too."

"'That's funny,' said Pooh. 'I dropped it on the other side,' said Pooh, 'and it came out on this side! I wonder if it would do it again?' And he went back for some more fir-cones. It did. It kept on doing it. Then he dropped two in at once, and leant over the bridge to see which of them would come out first; and one of them did; but as they were both the same size, he didn't know if it was the one which he wanted to win, or the other one. So the next time he dropped one big one and one little one, and the big one came out first, which was what he had said it would do, and the little one came out last, which was what he had said it would do, so he had won twice ... and when he went home for tea, he had won thirty-six and lost twenty-eight, which meant that he was - that he had - well, you take twenty-eight from thirty-six, and that's what he was. Instead of the other way round."

Poohsticks, a game for two players or more. In the traditional version the participants must drop sticks simultaneously on the upstream side of a bridge and run to the other side. The winner is the player whose stick first appears on the other side of the bridge. Alternatively, players may decide upon a starting point on a river and a finish line further downstream. The winner is the player whose stick first passes the finishing point.

It is generally agreed that the stick must be made of organic materials, preferably willow. All participants must drop their sticks at the same time, usually after a referee shouts an agreed keyword. Additionally, no advantage may be gained through either dismantling the bridge or the use of any self-propelling stick devices. The stick must be dropped, not thrown, into the water and any player who is deemed to have thrown their stick is disqualified. Boo!

Poohsticks is considered to be a game of chance yet some players claim skill is involved. Some strategies involve the way in which the stick is held before it is dropped and trying to find the fastest route in the river.

Poohsticks was invented by the English author A. A. Milne for his son Christopher Robin. The game first came to prominence when it was described in the author's book The House at Pooh Corner. It was first played at a bridge located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Hartfield, East Sussex. Built in 1907 and originally called Posingford Bridge, it is considered to be the bridge on which Milne and his son first played the game. It is still uncertain whether the game was first played at the bridge then written into the story, or vice versa.

And, finally, my all-time favourite joke.

Q.What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick!


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