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Hitting for the cycle in the Modern Era by Tuesdays

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by Tuesdays

So far, 84 authors have hit for the cycle, meaning they have at least one puzzle for each day of the week. Their names are marked with a ✅.

Cycle Level is noted for constructors who have cycled more than once, that is, have a minimum of two puzzles for each day. Their photos are shown here if we have them.

Constructors need 7 daily puzzles to qualify for this page.

On November 28, 2017, Andrew Ries became the first constructor to hit for the cycle on his first seven published NYT puzzles.

Click an author name to see thumbnails. Click a column heading to sort by that column.

Total	Author		Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Level
185	Nancy Salomon	✅	36	33	53	37	19	6	1
219	Elizabeth C. Gorski	✅	67	16	36	34	39	24	3	3
116	Gregory E. Paul		0	86	29	1	0	0	0
107	Peter Gordon	✅	9	43	26	12	11	5	1
106	Fred Piscop	✅	14	25	26	25	5	2	9	2
123	Alan Arbesfeld	✅	23	11	25	37	25	1	1
119	Peter A. Collins	✅	7	13	25	41	16	10	7	7
53	Sarah Keller		0	21	25	5	2	0	0
74	Randall J. Hartman		0	34	24	12	3	1	0
79	Zhouqin Burnikel	✅	6	27	22	7	5	9	3	3
54	Ross Trudeau		10	6	20	12	6	0	0
89	Paula Gamache	✅	8	13	18	15	12	17	6	6
63	Bruce Haight		3	18	18	12	6	6	0
53	Ed Early	✅	1	9	17	11	7	4	4
100	Lynn Lempel		4	73	17	2	1	3	0
36	Stephanie Spadaccini		0	16	17	2	0	0	1
151	Jeff Chen	✅	41	10	15	25	37	11	12	10
116	Harvey Estes	✅	20	15	15	12	19	27	8	8
177	Brendan Emmett Quigley	✅	38	5	15	21	19	52	27	5
31	Jonathan Schmalzbach		1	3	15	12	0	0	0
189	David J. Kahn	✅	44	6	14	26	60	13	26	6
39	Allan E. Parrish		0	14	14	7	2	1	1
65	Joel Fagliano	✅	18	9	12	9	11	3	3	3
85	Andrea Carla Michaels		7	61	12	2	3	0	0
27	Janet R. Bender		1	14	10	1	1	0	0
40	Gary Cee	✅	1	14	10	8	4	2	1
27	Kevan Choset		2	2	10	5	7	0	1
47	Victor Fleming	✅	7	5	10	7	6	6	6	5
35	Richard Hughes	✅	2	5	10	12	2	1	3
26	Nancy Kavanaugh		0	10	10	3	1	2	0
30	Adam G. Perl		1	8	10	8	3	0	0
53	Sherry O. Blackard	✅	1	7	9	3	1	21	11
32	Richard Chisholm		1	12	9	7	3	0	0
48	Alex Eaton-Salners	✅	4	4	9	11	17	2	1
55	Timothy Polin		8	6	9	6	24	0	2
13	Gail Grabowski		0	5	8	0	0	0	0
53	Doug Peterson	✅	5	3	8	3	3	13	18	3
92	Barry C. Silk	✅	3	5	8	5	3	27	41	3
109	David Steinberg	✅	10	7	8	9	15	34	26	7
14	Arthur S. Verdesca		1	1	8	2	1	1	0
77	Erik Agard	✅	11	8	7	9	10	14	18	7
246	Manny Nosowsky	✅	29	4	7	14	41	122	29	4
29	Dan Schoenholz		11	3	7	4	4	0	0
44	Edward Sessa	✅	4	12	7	8	6	5	2	2
21	Carolyn W. Stewart		1	10	7	2	1	0	0
19	Michael Torch		3	3	7	3	2	1	0
59	Patrick Blindauer	✅	14	6	6	14	17	1	1
16	Freddie Cheng	✅	1	4	6	2	1	1	1
25	Lee Glickstein		6	0	6	8	5	0	0
21	Bernice Gordon		0	12	6	3	0	0	0
46	Damon J. Gulczynski	✅	1	6	6	2	9	11	11
40	John Guzzetta	✅	1	5	6	3	5	11	9
22	Tyler Hinman	✅	2	1	6	3	3	3	4
22	Kristian House	✅	1	1	6	3	4	2	5
21	Jim Hyres	✅	1	6	6	3	2	1	2
16	Patrick Jordan		0	3	6	3	4	0	0
12	Jay Kaskel		0	2	6	3	0	1	0
55	Ian Livengood	✅	6	17	6	6	7	11	2	2
22	Jules P. Markey		0	1	6	8	7	0	0
15	Gene Newman		0	4	6	3	1	1	0
8	Christopher Page		0	0	6	0	1	0	1
51	Michael Shteyman	✅	3	3	6	7	17	6	9	3
22	Randy Sowell		0	12	6	3	1	0	0
14	John Underwood		0	1	6	2	3	1	1
19	Bruce Venzke		2	2	6	4	3	2	0
21	Stella Zawistowski	✅	1	3	6	3	2	3	3
12	Robert Zimmerman		0	3	6	2	1	0	0
11	Sam Buchbinder		0	2	5	1	0	2	1
13	Amanda Chung		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
19	Adam Cohen		0	1	5	6	2	2	3
39	Samuel A. Donaldson	✅	10	2	5	8	7	1	6
12	Olivia Mitra Framke		4	1	5	1	1	0	0
12	Don Gagliardo		3	1	5	1	2	0	0
17	Susan Gelfand		0	9	5	2	1	0	0
27	Christina Iverson	✅	10	3	5	1	2	3	3
13	Daniel Kantor		0	0	5	6	1	1	0
16	Aimee Lucido		2	2	5	1	2	4	0
35	Caleb Madison	✅	9	1	5	4	5	6	5
91	Patrick Merrell	✅	22	10	5	13	34	5	2	2
13	Karl Ni		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
15	Daniel Raymon		1	2	5	5	1	1	0
34	Jacob Stulberg		4	6	5	9	6	4	0
19	Adam Wagner		6	1	5	1	6	0	0
16	Holden Baker		0	8	4	2	1	1	0
8	Diane C. Baldwin		1	1	4	2	0	0	0
10	Bill Ballard		0	3	4	2	1	0	0
22	Myles Callum	✅	1	1	4	4	1	6	5
18	Kevin Christian		0	10	4	2	0	1	1
15	Kelly Clark		1	1	4	3	5	1	0
15	Ethan Cooper		1	4	4	2	4	0	0
17	Kyle T. Dolan	✅	1	1	4	1	1	5	4
7	Michael J. Doran		1	1	4	1	0	0	0
12	Neville Fogarty		1	1	4	1	4	1	0
36	Tracy Gray	✅	11	5	4	7	7	1	1
12	John Greenman		1	5	4	2	0	0	0
9	Nick Grivas		0	2	4	3	0	0	0
27	Raymond Hamel	✅	3	4	4	2	4	4	6	2
40	Frances Hansen	✅	17	2	4	5	9	2	1
8	Paul Hunsberger		1	0	4	2	1	0	0
18	Evan Kalish	✅	1	5	4	1	1	5	1
87	Joe Krozel	✅	4	1	4	7	24	26	21
13	Roy Leban		2	2	4	3	2	0	0
10	Kurt Mengel		0	5	4	1	0	0	0
18	Pete Muller		6	0	4	2	5	0	1
188	Rich Norris	✅	18	1	4	14	16	16	119
27	Tony Orbach		17	0	4	4	1	0	1
43	Trip Payne	✅	10	3	4	4	6	3	13	3
25	Fran Sabin	✅	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	2
29	Lou Sabin	✅	7	4	4	6	4	2	2	2
17	Thomas W. Schier		0	5	4	4	1	2	1
8	Margaret Seikel		0	1	4	1	0	2	0
9	Jeff Stillman		0	1	4	3	0	0	1
10	Bill Thompson		0	1	4	2	3	0	0
32	Karen M. Tracey		0	0	4	0	2	4	22
19	Alex Vratsanos	✅	3	1	4	3	3	1	4
19	Jeffrey Wechsler		0	2	4	6	6	1	0
60	Brad Wilber		0	1	4	3	0	14	38
9	Joy L. Wouk		0	2	4	0	2	0	1
8	Christopher Adams		2	0	3	1	1	1	0
7	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano		1	1	3	1	0	1	0
15	Gareth Bain		0	4	3	4	1	1	2
42	Eric Berlin	✅	14	1	3	5	2	15	2
14	Michael Blake		0	8	3	1	2	0	0
13	Mike Buckley		0	4	3	3	3	0	0
11	John R. Conrad		0	1	3	1	3	2	1
33	Tim Croce		0	1	3	3	2	8	16
7	Joel Davajan		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
7	Sharon Delorme		0	1	3	1	2	0	0
42	Chuck Deodene		0	2	3	9	8	12	8
9	Ella Dershowitz		2	1	3	1	2	0	0
16	Robert Dillman		0	9	3	3	1	0	0
33	John Farmer	✅	2	1	3	6	10	8	3
12	Ernie Furtado		3	4	3	2	0	0	0
46	Matt Ginsberg		17	0	3	0	16	4	6
16	Oliver Hill		3	5	3	2	3	0	0
7	Norma Johnson		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
23	Andrew Kingsley	✅	1	3	3	3	3	5	5
60	Bob Klahn	✅	13	1	3	1	2	14	26
25	Andy Kravis	✅	5	1	3	7	4	2	3
23	David Kwong	✅	4	2	3	4	7	2	1
19	John Lieb		0	4	3	2	3	1	6
15	Michael Lieberman		4	4	3	1	2	1	0
9	Robert Malinow		4	1	3	1	0	0	0
12	Todd McClary		1	0	3	0	4	2	2
8	Jacob McDermott		0	0	3	1	0	3	1
23	Stanley Newman	✅	1	9	3	2	5	2	1
39	Bob Peoples		3	0	3	0	1	11	21
16	Tom Pepper	✅	1	4	3	1	2	3	2
10	Amanda Rafkin		0	1	3	5	0	1	0
68	A. J. Santora	✅	5	1	3	11	20	16	12
18	Lois Sidway		0	0	3	5	10	0	0
13	Mark Elliot Skolsky		0	1	3	8	1	0	0
10	Susan Harrington Smith		0	0	3	3	4	0	0
21	Finn Vigeland		10	1	3	4	0	1	2
14	Michael Vuolo		0	3	3	4	2	2	0
48	Robyn Weintraub	✅	1	2	3	2	1	32	7
15	Gary J. Whitehead		0	3	3	3	4	0	2
26	David Levinson Wilk	✅	7	1	3	5	2	7	1
8	Leonard Williams		1	0	3	3	0	0	1
38	Wayne Robert Williams	✅	4	4	3	12	8	4	3	3
8	Peter Abide		2	0	2	0	4	0	0
20	Victor Barocas		9	1	2	4	3	0	1
227	Patrick Berry	✅	74	1	2	4	16	79	51
11	Alex Boisvert		0	1	2	4	3	1	0
7	Barry Boone		0	1	2	2	1	1	0
11	Eric Bornstein		0	5	2	2	1	1	0
19	Emily Carroll	✅	2	5	2	3	4	1	2
37	Trenton Charlson	✅	3	1	2	3	7	9	12
7	William S. Cotter		0	0	2	0	1	1	3
18	Joe Deeney	✅	1	2	2	4	3	2	4
10	Trent H. Evans		0	5	2	0	0	2	1
11	Mark Feldman		3	4	2	0	2	0	0
7	Johanna Fenimore		0	2	2	2	1	0	0
22	Gerald R. Ferguson		0	1	2	2	2	6	9
15	Daniel A. Finan		9	0	2	1	3	0	0
7	Jan-Michele Gianette		0	4	2	1	0	0	0
15	Rebecca Goldstein	✅	3	2	2	1	4	1	2
29	Mary Lou Guizzo	✅	3	1	2	6	3	8	6
9	Christina Houlihan Kelly		0	6	2	0	1	0	0
11	Daniel Larsen		0	1	2	0	0	7	1
39	Natan Last	✅	8	1	2	5	2	10	11
8	James R. Leeds		1	0	2	1	4	0	0
9	Ellen Leuschner		3	2	2	0	2	0	0
10	Eileen Lexau		0	3	2	3	1	0	1
26	Julian Lim	✅	2	1	2	5	4	3	9
13	Elizabeth A. Long		1	4	2	2	3	1	0
18	Gilbert H. Ludwig		0	1	2	3	5	5	2
15	Ruth B. Margolin		5	0	2	4	4	0	0
8	Simon Marotte		0	4	2	1	0	1	0
7	Kevin McCann		1	0	2	0	2	2	0
11	Alfio Micci		1	0	2	5	2	1	0
25	James Mulhern		0	1	2	0	0	10	12
48	Will Nediger		22	0	2	9	2	2	11
26	Jeremy Newton		18	0	2	2	4	0	0
50	Mike Nothnagel	✅	4	4	2	2	7	25	6	2
25	joon pahk	✅	4	1	2	3	4	2	9
20	David Phillips		1	0	2	1	2	7	7
9	David Pringle		0	3	2	0	3	1	0
8	Janice M. Putney		0	6	2	0	0	0	0
50	Sidney L. Robbins		0	48	2	0	0	0	0
12	Martin Schneider		5	2	2	1	1	0	1
7	Michael Sharp		1	1	2	1	1	1	0
17	Norma Steinberg		1	10	2	3	1	0	0
9	Gary Steinmehl		0	1	2	2	1	2	1
26	Matthew Stock	✅	7	1	2	5	2	6	3
14	Brian Thomas		0	4	2	1	1	1	5
7	James Tuttle		0	3	2	0	2	0	0
101	Byron Walden	✅	14	1	2	3	9	3	69
9	Stanley B. Whitten		0	3	2	2	2	0	0
8	Kathy Wienberg		1	3	2	2	0	0	0
14	Norman S. Wizer		2	2	2	3	2	3	0
17	David Woolf	✅	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2
15	Bill Zais		10	0	2	2	1	0	0
18	Andrew Zhou		3	0	2	1	6	3	3
12	Adam Aaronson		0	1	1	2	0	0	8
14	Seth A. Abel		6	1	1	3	1	2	0
7	Scott Atkinson		0	1	1	0	1	2	2
7	Alex Bajcz		2	0	1	3	1	0	0
10	George Barany		2	0	1	0	3	2	2
10	Milo Beckman		0	1	1	1	4	2	1
8	Daniel Bodily		3	0	1	1	3	0	0
11	Karen Young Bonin		3	0	1	6	1	0	0
7	Billy Bratton		0	0	1	1	1	1	3
9	Ori Brian	✅	1	1	1	2	1	2	1
8	Garrett Chalfin		2	2	1	0	1	0	2
7	Ricky Cruz		1	0	1	1	3	0	1
10	Levi Denham		0	1	1	4	2	2	0
42	Kevin G. Der	✅	12	2	1	2	4	11	10
7	Alison Donald		0	5	1	1	0	0	0
8	John Dunn		1	5	1	0	0	1	0
44	Sam Ezersky	✅	7	2	1	3	5	7	19
8	Rachel Fabi		1	1	1	0	1	2	2
14	Jason Flinn		0	1	1	2	5	0	5
58	Matt Gaffney		14	0	1	6	15	15	7
17	Todd Gross	✅	4	2	1	1	5	1	3
9	Katie Hale		7	1	1	0	0	0	0
10	Jake Halperin		0	1	1	3	5	0	0
11	Nelson Hardy		7	0	1	0	1	2	0
7	Robert W. Harris		4	0	1	2	0	0	0
13	Kate Hawkins		0	1	1	4	0	5	2
24	Michael Hawkins	✅	1	2	1	5	1	8	6
10	Francis Heaney		3	0	1	4	2	0	0
7	Thomas Heilman		0	1	1	0	0	1	4
15	Jim Hilger		1	1	1	5	7	0	0
12	Roland Huget		0	1	1	0	0	2	8
11	Christopher Hurt		2	0	1	3	4	1	0
8	Greg Johnson		0	3	1	1	0	1	2
8	Betty Jorgensen		0	1	1	0	5	1	0
7	Steve Kahn		2	3	1	0	1	0	0
7	Pamela Amick Klawitter		4	0	1	1	1	0	0
24	Josh Knapp		2	0	1	0	2	9	10
7	Gary Larson		1	2	1	2	1	0	0
7	John D. Leavy		0	2	1	4	0	0	0
13	David Liben-Nowell	✅	1	1	1	2	3	4	1
11	Barbara Lin		1	2	1	2	4	1	0
8	Wyna Liu		2	0	1	0	0	2	3
69	Frank Longo		15	0	1	3	7	14	29
7	David Ainslie Macleod		0	1	1	1	2	2	0
11	Evan Mahnken		1	2	1	4	1	2	0
7	John Scott Marrone		0	0	1	0	1	1	4
19	Michael S. Maurer		3	0	1	11	3	1	0
35	Tom McCoy		19	8	1	5	2	0	0
7	Chris A. McGlothlin		1	0	1	1	0	2	2
7	Kurt Mueller		2	1	1	1	1	0	1
15	Dean Niles		8	0	1	1	0	2	3
9	Jennifer Nutt		0	6	1	2	0	0	0
7	Jean O'Conor		1	2	1	2	1	0	0
10	Alan Olschwang		1	0	1	2	1	5	0
9	Jim Peredo		2	2	1	3	1	0	0
9	David Poole		0	2	1	3	3	0	0
41	David Quarfoot		1	0	1	0	2	17	20
7	Merl Reagle		4	0	1	0	1	1	0
16	Caitlin Reid		3	1	1	0	2	5	4
26	Andrew Ries	✅	3	1	1	2	1	8	10
7	Claire Rimkus		0	0	1	0	1	5	0
14	Mel Rosen	✅	5	1	1	1	1	3	2
22	Nancy S. Ross		2	0	1	13	6	0	0
12	Michael Schlossberg		5	2	1	2	2	0	0
8	Herre Schouwerwou		0	1	1	3	3	0	0
8	Bob Sefick		0	0	1	0	2	4	1
84	Richard Silvestri		26	0	1	36	16	1	4
25	Greg Staples		4	2	1	11	7	0	0
14	Dave Tuller		3	1	1	0	2	3	4
10	Hoang-Kim Vu		1	2	1	0	2	2	2
7	Alan Jay Weiss		0	1	1	1	1	2	1
9	John Westwig		2	1	1	0	2	0	3
11	Yacob Yonas		0	1	1	1	2	2	4
84	Cathy Allis		40	0	0	4	35	4	1
14	Ashton Anderson		0	1	0	0	0	9	4
11	Michael Ashley		7	0	0	0	0	2	2
80	Martin Ashwood-Smith		0	0	0	0	3	62	15
12	Howard Barkin		3	3	0	2	2	1	1
11	Sheldon Benardo		0	6	0	3	2	0	0
9	Marjorie Berg		0	9	0	0	0	0	0
8	Evan Birnholz		0	0	0	1	1	2	4
8	Kelsey Blakley		5	0	0	3	0	0	0
10	Derek Bowman		1	1	0	0	6	2	0
9	Daniel C. Bryant		6	0	0	0	3	0	0
21	Rand H. Burns		0	0	0	0	4	1	16
10	Shannon Burns		0	3	0	0	2	4	1
24	Kameron Austin Collins		0	0	0	0	1	7	16
20	Charles M. Deber		19	0	0	0	1	0	0
7	Michael Dewey		0	3	0	4	0	0	0
66	Mark Diehl		1	2	0	2	7	17	37
138	Joe DiPietro		31	1	0	9	24	43	30
7	David Distenfeld		0	1	0	0	0	3	3
9	Chase Dittrich		1	1	0	3	4	0	0
7	Pawel Fludzinski		1	1	0	2	2	1	0
8	Adam Fromm		4	0	0	1	1	1	1
17	Charles E. Gersch		0	1	0	3	0	6	7
14	Frederick J. Healy		0	1	0	0	0	3	10
25	Henry Hook		6	0	0	2	9	4	4
7	Jeremy Horwitz		1	2	0	0	3	0	1
20	Brooke Husic		1	1	0	2	1	8	7
15	William I. Johnston		0	1	0	3	5	3	3
48	Nancy Nicholson Joline		34	2	0	1	1	2	8
14	Alex K. Justin		4	2	0	0	2	3	3
15	Craig Kasper		4	3	0	1	2	3	2
16	Brandon Koppy		2	1	0	7	2	3	1
11	John Lampkin		2	3	0	3	1	1	1
18	Kyle Mahowald		2	3	0	3	2	6	2
7	Daniel Mauer		1	1	0	2	3	0	0
9	Sophia Maymudes		2	0	0	0	2	4	1
26	Ryan McCarty		1	0	0	0	1	2	22
9	Hal Moore		1	0	0	2	1	4	1
31	Dana Motley		2	0	0	0	1	7	21
11	Rafael Musa		4	0	0	0	0	6	1
9	Derrick Niederman		9	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Stu Ockman		0	0	0	4	6	0	3
70	Jim Page		10	0	0	5	14	18	23
24	Paolo Pasco		4	3	0	0	1	7	9
8	Con Pederson		8	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Glenton Petgrave		0	0	0	1	1	1	5
8	Rich Proulx		0	1	0	4	2	1	0
115	Randolph Ross		50	1	0	3	17	19	25
9	Lewis Rothlein		2	0	0	0	7	0	0
8	Corey Rubin		0	0	0	2	2	3	1
12	Simeon Seigel		1	0	0	1	9	0	1
12	Matthew Sewell		2	1	0	5	1	2	1
7	Mike Shenk		2	0	0	1	1	0	3
17	Sid Sivakumar		4	1	0	0	3	1	8
7	Blake Slonecker		0	0	0	1	2	2	2
16	Daniel R. Stark		0	0	0	1	3	2	10
7	Nancy Stark		2	0	0	3	2	0	0
10	Mel Taub		0	1	0	5	2	1	1
9	Ben Tausig		5	0	0	0	4	0	0
13	Grant Thackray		3	0	0	1	5	2	2
26	Sam Trabucco		5	1	0	2	3	6	9
19	Ashish Vengsarkar		8	1	0	2	5	1	2
9	Xan Vongsathorn		2	0	0	0	4	1	2
40	Peter Wentz		2	0	0	1	2	15	20
29	Bryant White		5	0	0	1	4	8	11
25	Ned White		1	2	0	6	2	5	9
7	Brad Wiegmann		3	1	0	2	0	1	0
60	Robert H. Wolfe		11	0	0	2	11	5	31
14	John Wolting		1	0	0	0	0	12	1
9	Nam Jin Yoon		0	0	0	0	0	4	5
8	Raymond C. Young		0	0	0	1	3	1	3

Pre-Shortz data is not included here. Difficulty level was not tied to day of the week in older puzzles.

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