Wordle 1,069 5/6
STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
SWISH
Wordle 1,069 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1069 3/6
446
8
SLANT
CHORE
SWISH
It amazes me that a green S and a yellow H narrowed things down so much. The only other real possibility was SUSHI, which I overlooked. (It occurs to me that when I check Scoredle for what I’ve overlooked, SUSHI has been one of those words several times. I might should stop overlooking it.)
Wordle 1,069 4/6
Wordle 1,069 4/6
HEART misses the rim
SHINY barely hits the rim
SMITH in and out
SWISH nothing but net
Wordle 1,069 3/6
RAISE
HOIST
SWISH
Wordle 1,069 4/6
CRANE - Ugh!
POISE
TWIST
SWISH
Wordle 1,069 4/6* 5/23/2024
EXALT → Usually, my “first guess second” words have either A or E in them. Now, I have get creative. Comcons with I & O both, so I jumbled them up and arrived at
IRONS → which isn’t perfect due to the plural, but at least covered everything. I thought about some U possibilities, but decided to try the I in the middle and throw lots of different consonants at it, thus going with
WHISK → which transforms to ?WISH, which pretty obviously becomes
SWISH
Nice par, I even got to use my IRONS. I’m just glad I didn’t try for a third vowel with my second guess (terminal Y) and end up missing the letter that was overrepresented in the answer.
Wordle 1,069 4/6
PATIO
LINES
SHIRK
SWISH
I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for -CH and -GH endings before realizing there was a second S.
Wordle 1,069 3/6*
LEAST
CRUSH
SWISH
Wordle 1,069 4/6*
PLATE
MINOR
WHIFF
SWISH
Wordle 1,069 5/6
PLANT
SCORE
SQUID
SISSY
SWISH
Got murdered on this one. I was pleased with myself when I came up with squid, but then didn’t see anything all day. By dinner time I finally saw sissy, but I was like, nah, no way that’s an answer.
Then at 11:54 I remembered that I never finished today’s Wordle, so in a panic I just tried the only word I had thought of. Locking in that second green S helped me finally see swish with only 2 minutes to spare before midnight.
Friday, May 24th
Wordle 1,070 3/6
PLANT
CLOSE
GLIDE
For some reason I immediately thought of the Phish song, and now I’m listening to that album. Haven’t thought of either the song or the album in a hot minute.
Wordle 1,069 3/6
SLATE
CHOIR
SWISH
[spoiler]Wordle 1,070 4/6
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COURT
SPINE
ALIVE
GLIDE
I guessed correctly.
Wordle 1,070 3/6
STERN
CLOUD — could be blade blade glide
GLIDE
And I don’t even know what the Phish song is.
Wordle 1,070 3/6
RATIO
SHINE
GLIDE
Wordle 1,070 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
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Wordle 1,070 3/6*
ALONE
SLIDE
GLIDE
Wordle 1,070 4/6
HEART
POISE
GUILE
GLIDE
Wordle 1070 3/6
167
21
SLANT
FORCE
GLIDE
With L in the 2-spot after my starting word, I used FORCE instead of my usual CHORE at 2 because there wasn’t a lot of room for an H in the solution, and I wanted to knock off an extra consonant that could precede the L.
After 2, I could only find six words that could fit: ELIDE, ELUDE, GLEBE, GLIDE, PLEBE, and PLUME. ELUDE had already been used, and GLEBE and PLEBE seemed less likely*. Of the remaining three, I liked GLIDE best, and it would do well for narrowing things down if wrong. And today I got lucky and it was the solution. 
(My choice of second word knocked out FLUME, which had been used, and FLUKE, which hadn’t. So it helped. )
*Despite how many times GLEBE appears in Arlington, VA. 