Wrote this one for future use in a D&D campaign.

Creator here. Wordy Bunch is a daily word game that runs on Reddit, and I hid twenty secret words in it as a kind of reverse Easter egg. When someone finds one, the whole subreddit is shown a title and a short riddle, and the intended fun is working backwards from the riddle to the word.

Seventeen of us found this one on 24 August, and my players have been deducing it since. They were down to four candidate words when I first posted this. Their working so far is posted in the subreddit r/WordyBunch.

Edit: the four are now two: Fourth and Fourths. Nobody can make the riddle fit either of them, which is exactly where a fresh pair of eyes comes in. And a right deduction does get its payoff in the end: the game itself confirms it in play, in its own time.

If you skip everything else, the whole puzzle is this: a hidden word earned the title Like a Natural. The game explained that title with one line: "Not a metaphor. Like one, though." The word is either Fourth or Fourths. Which one, and what is the reasoning? You do not need to see or play the game to have a go at that.

I know the answer and I have promised them I will not confirm or deny anything, here or there. Even a passing thought on what the riddle's wording is doing would genuinely help them. No pressure either way, and thanks for reading.

Ps mods I guess this is more of a help our subreddit solve hope you guys don't mind me posting here now and again.

Hints on demand if you need them!

My first attempt at a riddle and I’m not good at solving them, but I’m always blown away by how fast some of you solve them on here.

Random Riddle Info:

Intended Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆

Bonus Hint: For this riddle to work, you can't shake your head up and down. You have to shake it left to right

Wordplay Riddle?: No

Bonus points if you can figure out the significance of the title. Good luck!

I crafted this riddle with 13 revisions, and I will be answering guesses in the standard forms of warmer colder.

This is an original Riddle That I crafted, I did run it through tools to help with the rhyming scheme only. But all the clue and tightening, me.

Used an app called Snapseed on my phone to edit a picture i took.

Current answers: Not YEAST, BREAD, COFFEE, GRAIN, DOUGH