Just The Four Of Us
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Four of us are in your field
But our differences keep us at yield
First, a one that is no fool
Though he resembles a gardener's tool
Next, one difficult to split in two
And a girl once had one as big as her shoe
Then, to the mind, one's a lovely bonder
And truancy makes it grow fonder
Last, a stem connecting dots of three
Knowing all this, what are we?
HintA synonym to "truancy" can be "absence."
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Answer
The Four Suits in a Deck of Standard Playing Cards
The Spade is a gardener's tool.
The Diamond is the hardest gem to break. "Little Girl and Queen" is a Mother Goose rhyme, in which the Queen gave the girl a large diamond for picking the Queen some roses.
The Heart bonds with the mind to form "love." "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
The Club, or Clover, is three dots connected around a stem.
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Comments
zonahobo   
May 02, 2005
|  Friendly bit of noggin candy
your ryming riddle words were dandy .. you're quite the card! |
kcelf27 
May 02, 2005
| GOOD JOB
liked it I did, uh huh, uh huh!! |
Question_Mark
May 02, 2005
| Who am I, to deny, your teaser. |
vikingboy
May 02, 2005
| Good one,
Never heard the nursery ryhme about diamonds, so that threw me, but got spades and hearts so guessed the other two. |
canu
May 02, 2005
| The best hint was the previous comment. |
Nightmare2991
May 02, 2005
| Funny, at first I thought it was the four of my personalities, but then I saw the second clue...
Isn't ONYX the hardest stone to break?
Well, diamonds are pretty hard to break. GOOD JOB!!!  |
Nightmare2991
May 02, 2005
| Err, was it three? If there is me, and David, and Jordan, and Ryan...... Should I say 3 personalities or should I say 4 personalities? |
unklemyke
May 03, 2005
| Clumsy poem, the scansion limps,
Clues are fit for dopes and simps.
While "field " and "yield" may
make a rhyme,
They make no sense at any time.
The diamond may be hard, it's
true,
But it splits quite easily - that's
how they do.
The spade I'll give you - that
makes sense,
The heart - I'm kind of on the
fence.
"Truancy " for "absent" sort of
works,
But "bonder" ? Do you take us all
for jerks?
The club, or "clover"- there you
blow it.
"Dots" are too tiny for leaves -
and you know it!
Take one more step before you
ask for credit -
Go back to your riddle and self-
edit!!
Note:the diamond, while it is the hardest substance and resists wear and scratching, cleaves (or splits) quite readily - indeed, that is the first step in the diamond-cutting process- cleaving the crystal.  |
spookboy0
May 03, 2005
| While you may think this riddle
Is for the simple in the mind
Don't take me a fool
I know the mix-ups you find
While "field" and "yield"
May not seem of relation
"Field" is the game platform
While "yield" is simply the symbol differentiation
If a Diamond being cleaved is
The beginning of the procession
Then information in my head
Was in incorrect recession
Bonder is word meaning
A device that brings together
And wouldn't you agree that
Heart and Mind should be together?
And as for the "dots"
I see what you mean, but
When looking upon a clover field
Do you not see "dots" of green?
I hope that this explanation
Clarifies this disorientation
Please don't take me a fool
I just try to make good presentation |
tamjp
May 05, 2005
| Good one! Clueless at first then I got it from the "truancy makes it grow fonder" line.
And wow on the poems in the comments. Good stuff! |
darthforman
May 06, 2005
| I didn't get this one at all untill I looked at the answer. I didn't even think about a deck of cards.
 |
brunettebabe
May 13, 2005
| wow...stumped me....and awesome job on the poems in the comments |
crw1213
May 20, 2005
| this is for unklemyke that was and awsome cumback with that riddle....you r a tru riddlist!
|
Chakoteya
Jun 03, 2005
| very nice |
Red_Baron
Jun 03, 2005
| Was I the only one who got this right away? It could just be I play poker every other night  !!! Too bad I lose 1/3 of the time  . Still a good percentage. Of course for a sugeon that is a very bad percentage. "21 patients walked in, only 7 are alive." Am I rambling, well I have a tendancy to do that. You see, in my childhood........ |
skimela
Jun 03, 2005
| woah i feel like i have to write a rhyming comment...but im not going to.
brilliant teaser, i got it straight away, because im quite the card player! but the rhyme was nice!! |
staci12234
Jun 03, 2005
| I thought it was really good. Keep up the good work. |
FoxxyBrown1660
Jun 03, 2005
| Wow! The comments were as entertaining as the riddle!!!! I liked both very much.  |
gummbypal
Jun 03, 2005
| I guessed it on the fourth line with the garden tool. The rest fell into place. I liked it and I also learned from the comments to think twice if I ever decide to submit a mental gymnastic in poetry form. The comments are so good my poem would be lost in the shuffle.. |
autumnparalegal
Jun 03, 2005
| Great work to unklemyke and the rest of the rhyming commentors! I am quite impressed! I still didn't get the riddle, until I read the answer of course! then it all made sense! |
redneck_woman
Jun 03, 2005
| WOW! A battle of wits over a superb teaser.  I must have had a brain freeze though - I should have got this one. Most excellent! |
Kukmiester
Jun 03, 2005
| Very, very, good! Too bad I did not get it tho....  |
RichNCoco
Jun 03, 2005
| Vey clever I didn't get it  but I still think it was great! Good job. |
chick
Jun 03, 2005
| great job!!1 of the best riddles yet |
tracknfield
Jun 03, 2005
| I thought it was scarecrow. Don't ask me why hahaha |
riddlelover
Jun 03, 2005
| That was hard!  clever tho |
saites2001
Jun 03, 2005
| Great riddle, and comments, even though it was really simple. |
dbs241
Jun 03, 2005
| Love it!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the entertainment. |
FulanitoGM
Jun 03, 2005
| Scathing it was, this battle of rhyme,
But I think you guys have just too much free time!
UH, suckas!!! How you like me NOW?!?!?! |
spookboy0
Jun 03, 2005
| not anymore
than i did before
hey! im a poet
you know it
i make a rhyme
everytime |
triskit
Jun 03, 2005
| I got it on the first one. It was simple as just saying spade |
Araldite
Jun 03, 2005
| It's easy when you get it right away
And hard when it takes all day |
junk_kid
Jun 03, 2005
| great teaser |
FeaerFactorY666
Jun 03, 2005
| Interesting.......  |
soccer_chick70
Jun 03, 2005
| wow! I got this! I dont usually get riddles like this but I was playing card games with my friends all afternoon at school today! so for some reason I got this!!
by the way, I love the poems to comment on the teasers, and nice rebuttals too! |
Katelin
Jun 03, 2005
| Awsome teaser, will be on my fave's list! Keep it up, I need to see more like this! |
Neferjeane
Jun 05, 2005
| It's funny, I play poker or watch it on TV almost every day.... and I still didn't get it! Silly me! |
darthforman
Jun 06, 2005
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toobsie
Jun 24, 2005
| hey spookyboy, you got me there
cute, but pretty easy, to compare
great rhyming work & clever too
i'd like to see some more from you
if you ask me, it covered the field
the lawyer says the case is sealed
your pen's mightier then the club
and they're wrong when they snub
in criticizing you i cannot take part
to do so would betray my heart
a diamonds not the only thing
'as hard as rock'
your prose is one thing that i could never 'knock'
according to me you've got it made
whether its with hearts, clubs, diamonds, or the spade! |
emily103
Sep 10, 2005
| stumped me  the first four lines made me think it was in a garden... now i know it was just wordplay
great teaser! |
realm2346
Oct 31, 2005
| The only one I got was Heart.......I can't believe I missed spade. That would've made it alot easier.
I can't believe I missed this.
I play Solitaire almost every night,
With my computer,
I often fight.
I know the rules of Rummy,
And Poker, too.
How'd I miss this?
I haven't a clue.
Great riddle.
|
scallio
Nov 13, 2006
| Loved it!
Never heard of the nursery rhyme "Little Girl and Queen" though. |
puttumup
Nov 13, 2006
| must .be to early in the morning .i couldnt get it.i play poker a lot and i never heard of cards in any game called a field. |
schmedley9
Nov 13, 2006
|
Great job. I loved the teaser.
I didn't get it but I thought it was really cute when I saw the answer.
I like typing like this...
cuz then it takes for ever for the people below me to try to ...
comment.
Okay I'll stop.
Bye oh and once again...
GREAT TEASER!!!
-Schmedley9 |
locutus13ds
Nov 13, 2006
| I could not get it, and that makes me sad! But rhyming is easier, and that makes me glad! |
jcann
Nov 13, 2006
| I didn't get the teaser, but I thought it was well-written,as were most of the comments. But Schmedley, yours was most annoying. Please don't do that anymore. It's not funny and it's not clever--just annoying. Thanks. |
coachpisco
Nov 13, 2006
| That was a fun one. Thanks. |
lmurray
Nov 13, 2006
| THE "OLD" COMMENTS MADE MY DAY!! |
Pizzazz2u
Nov 13, 2006
| Reasonably easy, yet very exceptionally worded teaser. I can enjoy these teasers! They make you think about your descriptive wording and not just your riddle! WTG! |
zaya
Nov 13, 2006
| Who's this Schmedley a**hole? |
nu_rob_roy
Nov 13, 2006
| Hey Jake, how can we permanently 'blackball' some of these rude spoilers on this site? We come here for the teasers and a little fun not all these rude comments and childish behavior.
Amen Zena. Who indeed?
This teaser was fine. It was well done. |
nu_rob_roy
Nov 13, 2006
| Amen Zaya. Who indeed? I'm sorry about that. |
Trishgal
Nov 13, 2006
| I finally figured it out from that truancy quote This was a lot of fun and I enjoyed some of the comments keep these coming. thx |
MalcolmReynolds
Nov 13, 2006
| Nice. |
bradon182001
Nov 13, 2006
| I got this and didn't use the hint. It was areally good teaser (riddle). Hope to see more of these in the guture. Great job. |
bradon182001
Nov 13, 2006
| Woops!! I hope to see more of these in the future!!!! |
jabdr
Nov 13, 2006
| Congrats to spook and all the other poets! GREAT reading..Avid card player so came quickly to me. |
lmurray
Nov 13, 2006
| Hey Jake, how can we permanently 'blackball' some of these rude spoilers on this site?
LIKE THE ONES WHO SEND RUDE PRIVATE MESSAGES, BUT REFUSE TO ACCEPT (BLOCK) THE REPLY FROM THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY BERATED.
CHILDISH??? |
loony300
Nov 13, 2006
| very clever, i didnt get it, but when i saw the answer i got it
great one! |
wizkid
Nov 13, 2006
| Itz so funny how I didn't get this. I play with cards all of the time. In fact I just got finished. |
wandering_goat
Nov 13, 2006
| That was fun! Similarly to the hint now that I look at it, I got it by figuring out heart first, then spade, then the rest. Took me a while though! For a while I though the path to take would be looking at letter (like those in field .) |
natureluver
Nov 18, 2006
| I did NOT get this. That is weird. I play with cards all the time too. |
Qrystal
Dec 07, 2006
| *thumbs up!*
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| Enjoyed this a lot.
| The rhyme, the topic, the hint.
| Comments iced the cake.
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(The only poetry I do is Haiku.)
(I got this riddle -yay!- without the hint, but I thought the hint was a nice touch.) |
patiencewithaP
Nov 13, 2009
| I got it right away...love this teaser! Good job! |
craniac
Nov 13, 2009
| Are we running out of good new teasers? This one today is the third one running that shows I already rated it in the past, though I don't remember any of them. I guess I shouldn't complain, though. If I can't remember one, it's as good as new to me now. |
mikidoll
Nov 13, 2009
| Easy! "four in the field" and "gardener's tool" gave it away. I think I liked the poems in the comments better than the teaser itself! |
gargph
Nov 13, 2009
| Wow I feel dumb after this- and I was looking through a deck of cards |
doehead
Nov 13, 2009
| craniac, don't complain about repeats,because shannmo will scold you. Been there. |
precious1026
Nov 13, 2009
|  Great Teaser, Only got one, the heart, forgot the Spade. |
shannmo
Nov 14, 2009
| whats the matter doehead do you miss me? |
M2101
Jul 03, 2010
| DAM IT!!!!!  Got spade but not heart(and the others!) 1/I Don't Know. |
M2101
Jul 03, 2010
| Not good. (1% good ) (99% hard/bad ) |
M2101
Jul 03, 2010
| WORST.........TEASER!!!!!!!!!! |
Babe
Nov 13, 2012
| I thought cards at first and then changed my mind, but the poem was pretty bad., However, it was fun to see how it brought out a lot of would be poets. I really got a kick out of that and the whole thing has made me smile so that is good. Loved all the comments. |
cutebug
Nov 13, 2012
| What happened to doehead and shannmo? They were friendly foes. By the way,the teaser was quite easy. |
Maggiethe8th
Nov 13, 2012
| I was stuck thinking about silverware Preferred the more rational explanation! |
JQPublic
Nov 13, 2012
| Great teaser, but I only got the heart. |
iggy39
Nov 13, 2012
| good teaser i didn't get it but i did enjoy the rhyming comments as much as i did the riddle. |
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