4Stack #45 — answers & breakdown

Thursday, August 27, 2026

This day was an encore — a rerun of puzzle #13, first played on July 26, 2026. The full write-up lives on that puzzle's page.

The sixteen cards in this puzzle were: Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, Axiom Verge, Blasphemous, SimCity, Cities: Skylines, Anno, Frostpunk, Deus Ex, Dishonored, Prey, System Shock, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, ULTRAKILL, Dusk.

The four stacks

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