Washing it might work, the trouble is you don't know how long for.
A few weeks ago a guy at work spilt a whole large cup of coffee onto his gaming laptop. He took it to a repair shop and they pronounced it non-repairable, all it had was a single red flashing led when you tried to power it. They couldn't even get it started to allow him to recover files plus the keyboard was integrated into the chassis so that was non-removable too and obviously full of dried-up sticky coffee.
I carefully pulled off all the keys and popped all the plastic moulding pins to get the coffee out of the keyboard, but the board still would not start. In desperation I washed it (the motherboard) in the kitchen sink by squeezing out a sponge wetted with very hot water and scrubbing the whole board off with the damp sponge, then I left it under a heat lamp to dry. After that it fired right up, and it is still running weeks later, though it does tend to get hotter than it did before.