Wordle 809: Oh No

I ran my streak up to 146. And then today happened. I lost for the first time since April. Just a bummer all around. I mean, it was bound to happen at some point, but it still feels wild that it happened. 

I opened today with MOVER and got all grays. Undeterred by this result because even getting all grays is still a result that teaches you about the word. I felt after this guess that I should use the letter A in the next guess, which I did with PLAID. I only got a green for the A. So at this point, I started to worry a bit. But I figured I should look for common suffix endings. I debated with SH, TH, and CK. I decided to go with WHACK because it had the H elsewhere in the word. It was good to include the H since I got a yellow for it and everything else was gray.

So it's getting a little bit iffy at this point. I went with STASH. This got me the ending of the word with greens for A, S, and H. I was very certain STASH was the answer. But nope. I struggled to find my fifth guess. I ended up going with ABASH. And then I struggled more for the last guess and came up with QUASH. I didn't get any more letters and the game told me the answer was GNASH. Which sucks. When I checked Wordlebot, I see that for my final guesses ABASH, QUASH, and GNASH were the only available words that could work, but I never even really thought or considered GNASH. I don't really know what I would've done differently in this game. GN is such an odd combination. Maybe I could have used one of those letters earlier in the game, but I don't know. I do take some consolation in the fact that at the moment, 7.6% of solvers didn't get the answer, so my streak went down on a tough answer. Oh well. Tomorrow is a new day.