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Pooh-sticks

Pooh-sticks is game in which each player drops/throws a stick over the upstream side of a bridge into a stream or river, the winner being the person whose stick emerges first from under the bridge. Long before people used the above term, we played this game, which we called 'stick-racing'. In my primary school days, we played it whenever we crossed a bridge over a stream. In fact, behind my school there was such a stream where we regularly played stick-racing in the summer.
Wikipedia's comment that 'Pooh sticks was invented by English author A. A. Milne for his son Christopher Robin Milne. The sport first came to prominence when it was described in the author's book The House at Pooh Corner' is untrue; it is a game that is obvious & must have been played by children over many centuries.
Is there a native Greek term for this game, like my 'stick-racing, which was used before 'Pooh-sticks' became standard as the term in some European languages.
-'Lass uns mal Puhsticks spielen'.(German)
-Jeu de baton (French)
-çubuk yarışı' and 'derede çubuk yarışına gidelim' (Turkish)/"Pu çubukları.
 
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