Charlie Kirks alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was video game savant who played Wordle less than an hour before shooting

Tyler Robinson was so obsessed with video games that he boasted to a pal about his Wordle score less than an hour before allegedly gunning down Charlie Kirk, according to a new report that also revealed he wasted more than 2,000 hours on a virtual pirate game.The 22-year-old accused gunman bragged to a friend about guessing the answer to the Sept.10 puzzle — “pouty” — in three tries just before taking his rooftop perch at Utah Valley University and training his grandfather’s hunting rifle on the Turning Point USA founder, according to the Washington Post.The next morning, as authorities were hot on his trail following Kirk’s shocking public assassination, Robinson again exchanged results with his friend for the day’s word — his pal successfully guessed “chair” in two attempts, besting his own three-guess effort.Less than an hour later, Robinson’s image was plastered on TVs and news websites worldwide as the FBI released surveillance camera stills of a “person of interest” in the case.His mother recognized her son in the photos, and he turned himself in after some convincing from his family, but not before sending another message to his friends on video game streaming platform Discord.“It was me at UVU yesterday,” he wrote.Friends of Robinson’s told the outlet that he was highly skilled at video games, to which he dedicated thousands upon thousands of hours — one pal calling him a gaming “savant.”He played the open-world pirate exploration game Sea of Thieves for a whopping 2,148 hours, according to his online profiles, wiling away countless hours pursuing an in-game achievement that required players to catch 1,000 each of several types of fish.An avid fisherman in real life, Robinson was so committed to earning the achievement that he made a spreadsheet to help him figure out how many fish he would need to catch each day in order to reach the milestone, one friend saying he treated it “like a job.”Robinson’s obsessive ten...