4Stack #2 — answers & breakdown
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
A people puzzle rather than a games puzzle. The trap here is that almost everyone listed streams for a living now, so 'is a streamer' tells you nothing — you have to sort them by where they actually came from.
The sixteen cards in this puzzle were: Pokimane, Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, Valkyrae, PewDiePie, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, DanTDM, Dream, Technoblade, TommyInnit, GeorgeNotFound, Ninja, Shroud, summit1g, Dyrus.
The four stacks
Streaming icons
Pokimane, Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, Valkyrae
The current-era faces of live streaming. Kai Cenat's record-breaking subscriber runs and IShowSpeed's reaction-driven chaos represent a very different format from the polished let's-play era below them.
OG YouTube gamers
PewDiePie, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, DanTDM
The old guard of gaming YouTube, all of whom built audiences in the early-to-mid 2010s on edited video rather than live broadcast. PewDiePie held the most-subscribed channel on the platform for years.
Minecraft YouTubers
Dream, Technoblade, TommyInnit, GeorgeNotFound
Minecraft was big enough to produce its own celebrity ecosystem. Technoblade's death from cancer in 2022 and his father's message on his behalf became one of the most widely mourned moments in the site's history.
Esports pros before streaming fame
Ninja, Shroud, summit1g, Dyrus
The purple group is the point of the puzzle: all four were competitive players first. Ninja on Halo, Shroud on Counter-Strike, summit1g on Counter-Strike, and Dyrus as a League of Legends top laner for TSM.
Want to try it yourself? Play puzzle #2 — archive plays don't affect your streak. Or jump into today's puzzle.