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Hitting for the cycle in the Shortz Era by total count

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by total count

So far, 82 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
246	Manny Nosowsky	✅	29	4	7	14	41	122	29	4
227	Patrick Berry	✅	74	1	2	4	16	79	51
219	Elizabeth C. Gorski	✅	67	16	36	34	39	24	3	3
188	David J. Kahn	✅	44	5	14	26	60	13	26	5
187	Rich Norris	✅	18	1	4	14	16	16	118
185	Nancy Salomon	✅	36	33	53	37	19	6	1
176	Brendan Emmett Quigley	✅	38	5	15	21	19	51	27	5
146	Jeff Chen	✅	38	10	15	25	36	11	11	10
137	Joe DiPietro		31	1	0	9	23	43	30
122	Alan Arbesfeld	✅	23	10	25	37	25	1	1
117	Peter A. Collins	✅	7	12	25	40	16	10	7	7
116	Harvey Estes	✅	20	15	15	12	19	27	8	8
116	Gregory E. Paul		0	86	29	1	0	0	0
115	Randolph Ross		50	1	0	3	17	19	25
108	David Steinberg	✅	10	7	8	9	14	34	26	7
106	Fred Piscop	✅	14	25	26	25	5	2	9	2
104	Peter Gordon	✅	9	42	24	12	11	5	1
99	Lynn Lempel		4	73	16	2	1	3	0
99	Byron Walden	✅	14	1	2	3	9	3	67
92	Barry C. Silk	✅	3	5	8	5	3	27	41	3
91	Patrick Merrell	✅	22	10	5	13	34	5	2	2
89	Paula Gamache	✅	8	13	18	15	12	17	6	6
87	Joe Krozel	✅	4	1	4	7	24	26	21
84	Cathy Allis		40	0	0	4	35	4	1
84	Richard Silvestri		26	0	1	36	16	1	4
83	Andrea Carla Michaels		7	60	11	2	3	0	0
80	Martin Ashwood-Smith		0	0	0	0	3	62	15
77	Zhouqin Burnikel	✅	6	27	22	7	5	8	2	2
76	Erik Agard	✅	11	8	7	9	10	13	18	7
74	Randall J. Hartman		0	34	24	12	3	1	0
70	Jim Page		10	0	0	5	14	18	23
69	Frank Longo		15	0	1	3	7	14	29
68	A. J. Santora	✅	5	1	3	11	20	16	12
66	Mark Diehl		1	2	0	2	7	17	37
65	Joel Fagliano	✅	18	9	12	9	11	3	3	3
62	Bruce Haight		3	18	18	11	6	6	0
60	Bob Klahn	✅	13	1	3	1	2	14	26
60	Brad Wilber		0	1	4	3	0	14	38
60	Robert H. Wolfe		11	0	0	2	11	5	31
59	Patrick Blindauer	✅	14	6	6	14	17	1	1
58	Matt Gaffney		14	0	1	6	15	15	7
55	Ian Livengood	✅	6	17	6	6	7	11	2	2
55	Timothy Polin		8	6	9	6	24	0	2
54	Ross Trudeau		10	6	20	12	6	0	0
53	Sherry O. Blackard	✅	1	7	9	3	1	21	11
53	Ed Early	✅	1	9	17	11	7	4	4
53	Sarah Keller		0	21	25	5	2	0	0
52	Doug Peterson	✅	5	3	8	3	3	13	17	3
51	Michael Shteyman	✅	3	3	6	7	17	6	9	3
50	Mike Nothnagel	✅	4	4	2	2	7	25	6	2
50	Sidney L. Robbins		0	48	2	0	0	0	0
48	Nancy Nicholson Joline		34	2	0	1	1	2	8
47	Victor Fleming	✅	7	5	10	7	6	6	6	5
47	Will Nediger		22	0	2	9	2	2	10
46	Alex Eaton-Salners	✅	4	4	9	9	17	2	1
46	Matt Ginsberg		17	0	3	0	16	4	6
46	Robyn Weintraub	✅	1	2	3	2	1	30	7
45	Damon J. Gulczynski	✅	1	6	6	2	8	11	11
44	Edward Sessa	✅	4	12	7	8	6	5	2	2
43	Trip Payne	✅	10	3	4	4	6	3	13	3
42	Eric Berlin	✅	14	1	3	5	2	15	2
42	Chuck Deodene		0	2	3	9	8	12	8
42	Kevin G. Der	✅	12	2	1	2	4	11	10
41	Sam Ezersky	✅	7	1	1	3	4	7	18
41	David Quarfoot		1	0	1	0	2	17	20
40	Gary Cee	✅	1	14	10	8	4	2	1
40	Frances Hansen	✅	17	2	4	5	9	2	1
40	Peter Wentz		2	0	0	1	2	15	20
39	John Guzzetta	✅	1	5	6	3	5	11	8
39	Allan E. Parrish		0	14	14	7	2	1	1
39	Bob Peoples		3	0	3	0	1	11	21
38	Samuel A. Donaldson	✅	10	2	5	8	6	1	6
38	Natan Last	✅	8	1	2	5	2	10	10
38	Wayne Robert Williams	✅	4	4	3	12	8	4	3	3
37	Trenton Charlson	✅	3	1	2	3	7	9	12
36	Stephanie Spadaccini		0	16	17	2	0	0	1
35	Tracy Gray	✅	10	5	4	7	7	1	1
35	Richard Hughes	✅	2	5	10	12	2	1	3
35	Caleb Madison	✅	9	1	5	4	5	6	5
35	Tom McCoy		19	8	1	5	2	0	0
34	Jacob Stulberg		4	6	5	9	6	4	0
33	Tim Croce		0	1	3	3	2	8	16
33	John Farmer	✅	2	1	3	6	10	8	3
32	Richard Chisholm		1	12	9	7	3	0	0
32	Karen M. Tracey		0	0	4	0	2	4	22
31	Dana Motley		2	0	0	0	1	7	21
31	Jonathan Schmalzbach		1	3	15	12	0	0	0
30	Adam G. Perl		1	8	10	8	3	0	0
29	Mary Lou Guizzo	✅	3	1	2	6	3	8	6
29	Lou Sabin	✅	7	4	4	6	4	2	2	2
29	Bryant White		5	0	0	1	4	8	11
28	Dan Schoenholz		11	3	7	4	3	0	0
27	Janet R. Bender		1	14	10	1	1	0	0
27	Kevan Choset		2	2	10	5	7	0	1
27	Raymond Hamel	✅	3	4	4	2	4	4	6	2
27	Tony Orbach		17	0	4	4	1	0	1
26	Nancy Kavanaugh		0	10	10	3	1	2	0
26	Julian Lim	✅	2	1	2	5	4	3	9
26	Andrew Ries	✅	3	1	1	2	1	8	10
26	Sam Trabucco		5	1	0	2	3	6	9
26	David Levinson Wilk	✅	7	1	3	5	2	7	1
25	Lee Glickstein		6	0	6	8	5	0	0
25	Henry Hook		6	0	0	2	9	4	4
25	Andy Kravis	✅	5	1	3	7	4	2	3
25	Ryan McCarty		1	0	0	0	1	2	21
25	James Mulhern		0	1	2	0	0	10	12
25	Jeremy Newton		17	0	2	2	4	0	0
25	joon pahk	✅	4	1	2	3	4	2	9
25	Fran Sabin	✅	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	2
25	Greg Staples		4	2	1	11	7	0	0
25	Ned White		1	2	0	6	2	5	9
24	Kameron Austin Collins		0	0	0	0	1	7	16
24	Michael Hawkins	✅	1	2	1	5	1	8	6
24	Josh Knapp		2	0	1	0	2	9	10
23	Stanley Newman	✅	1	9	3	2	5	2	1
23	Paolo Pasco		4	3	0	0	0	7	9
23	Matthew Stock	✅	6	1	2	5	2	5	2
22	Myles Callum	✅	1	1	4	4	1	6	5
22	Gerald R. Ferguson		0	1	2	2	2	6	9
22	Tyler Hinman	✅	2	1	6	3	3	3	4
22	Kristian House	✅	1	1	6	3	4	2	5
22	David Kwong	✅	4	2	3	4	6	2	1
22	Jules P. Markey		0	1	6	8	7	0	0
22	Nancy S. Ross		2	0	1	13	6	0	0
22	Randy Sowell		0	12	6	3	1	0	0
21	Rand H. Burns		0	0	0	0	4	1	16
21	Bernice Gordon		0	12	6	3	0	0	0
21	Jim Hyres	✅	1	6	6	3	2	1	2
21	Christina Iverson		10	3	4	1	0	1	2
21	Carolyn W. Stewart		1	10	7	2	1	0	0
21	Finn Vigeland		10	1	3	4	0	1	2
20	Charles M. Deber		19	0	0	0	1	0	0
20	Andrew Kingsley	✅	1	2	2	3	3	5	4
20	David Phillips		1	0	2	1	2	7	7
20	Stella Zawistowski	✅	1	2	6	3	2	3	3
19	Victor Barocas		9	1	1	4	3	0	1
19	Emily Carroll	✅	2	5	2	3	4	1	2
19	Adam Cohen		0	1	5	6	2	2	3
19	Brooke Husic		1	1	0	2	1	7	7
19	John Lieb		0	4	3	2	3	1	6
19	Michael S. Maurer		3	0	1	11	3	1	0
19	Michael Torch		3	3	7	3	2	1	0
19	Ashish Vengsarkar		8	1	0	2	5	1	2
19	Bruce Venzke		2	2	6	4	3	2	0
19	Jeffrey Wechsler		0	2	4	6	6	1	0
18	Joe Deeney	✅	1	2	2	4	3	2	4
18	Gilbert H. Ludwig		0	1	2	3	5	5	2
18	Kyle Mahowald		2	3	0	3	2	6	2
18	Pete Muller		6	0	4	2	5	0	1
18	Lois Sidway		0	0	3	5	10	0	0
18	Alex Vratsanos	✅	3	1	4	3	3	1	3
18	Andrew Zhou		3	0	2	1	6	3	3
17	Kevin Christian		0	10	3	2	0	1	1
17	Kyle T. Dolan	✅	1	1	4	1	1	5	4
17	Susan Gelfand		0	9	5	2	1	0	0
17	Charles E. Gersch		0	1	0	3	0	6	7
17	Todd Gross	✅	4	2	1	1	5	1	3
17	Evan Kalish	✅	1	5	4	1	1	4	1
17	Thomas W. Schier		0	5	4	4	1	2	1
17	Norma Steinberg		1	10	2	3	1	0	0
17	David Woolf	✅	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2
16	Holden Baker		0	8	4	2	1	1	0
16	Robert Dillman		0	9	3	3	1	0	0
16	Oliver Hill		3	5	3	2	3	0	0
16	Patrick Jordan		0	3	6	3	4	0	0
16	Daniel R. Stark		0	0	0	1	3	2	10
16	Adam Wagner		5	0	4	1	6	0	0
15	Gareth Bain		0	4	3	4	1	1	2
15	Kelly Clark		1	1	4	3	5	1	0
15	Ethan Cooper		1	4	4	2	4	0	0
15	Daniel A. Finan		9	0	2	1	3	0	0
15	Jim Hilger		1	1	1	5	7	0	0
15	William I. Johnston		0	1	0	3	5	3	3
15	Craig Kasper		4	3	0	1	2	3	2
15	Brandon Koppy		2	1	0	7	1	3	1
15	Aimee Lucido		2	2	5	0	2	4	0
15	Gene Newman		0	4	6	3	1	1	0
15	Dean Niles		8	0	1	1	0	2	3
15	Tom Pepper	✅	1	4	3	1	2	2	2
15	Daniel Raymon		1	2	5	5	1	1	0
15	Caitlin Reid		3	1	1	0	2	5	3
15	Sid Sivakumar		2	1	0	0	3	1	8
15	Gary J. Whitehead		0	3	3	3	4	0	2
15	Bill Zais		10	0	2	2	1	0	0
14	Seth A. Abel		6	1	1	3	1	2	0
14	Ashton Anderson		0	1	0	0	0	9	4
14	Michael Blake		0	8	3	1	2	0	0
14	Freddie Cheng	✅	1	4	4	2	1	1	1
14	Jason Flinn		0	1	1	2	5	0	5
14	Frederick J. Healy		0	1	0	0	0	3	10
14	Alex K. Justin		4	2	0	0	2	3	3
14	Ruth B. Margolin		5	0	2	3	4	0	0
14	Mel Rosen	✅	5	1	1	1	1	3	2
14	Brian Thomas		0	4	2	1	1	1	5
14	Dave Tuller		3	1	1	0	2	3	4
14	John Underwood		0	1	6	2	3	1	1
14	Arthur S. Verdesca		1	1	8	2	1	1	0
14	Michael Vuolo		0	3	3	4	2	2	0
14	Norman S. Wizer		2	2	2	3	2	3	0
14	John Wolting		1	0	0	0	0	12	1
13	Mike Buckley		0	4	3	3	3	0	0
13	Amanda Chung		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
13	Gail Grabowski		0	5	8	0	0	0	0
13	Daniel Kantor		0	0	5	6	1	1	0
13	Roy Leban		2	2	4	3	2	0	0
13	David Liben-Nowell	✅	1	1	1	2	3	4	1
13	Michael Lieberman		3	3	3	1	2	1	0
13	Elizabeth A. Long		1	4	2	2	3	1	0
13	Karl Ni		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
13	Stu Ockman		0	0	0	4	6	0	3
13	Mark Elliot Skolsky		0	1	3	8	1	0	0
13	Grant Thackray		3	0	0	1	5	2	2
12	Adam Aaronson		0	1	1	2	0	0	8
12	Howard Barkin		3	3	0	2	2	1	1
12	Neville Fogarty		1	1	4	1	4	1	0
12	Olivia Mitra Framke		4	1	5	1	1	0	0
12	Ernie Furtado		3	4	3	2	0	0	0
12	Don Gagliardo		3	1	5	1	2	0	0
12	John Greenman		1	5	4	2	0	0	0
12	Roland Huget		0	1	1	0	0	2	8
12	Jay Kaskel		0	2	6	3	0	1	0
12	Todd McClary		1	0	3	0	4	2	2
12	Martin Schneider		5	2	2	1	1	0	1
12	Matthew Sewell		2	1	0	5	1	2	1
12	Robert Zimmerman		0	3	6	2	1	0	0
11	Michael Ashley		7	0	0	0	0	2	2
11	Sheldon Benardo		0	6	0	3	2	0	0
11	Alex Boisvert		0	1	2	4	3	1	0
11	Karen Young Bonin		3	0	1	6	1	0	0
11	Eric Bornstein		0	5	2	2	1	1	0
11	Sam Buchbinder		0	2	5	1	0	2	1
11	John R. Conrad		0	1	3	1	3	2	1
11	Mark Feldman		3	4	2	0	2	0	0
11	Nelson Hardy		7	0	1	0	1	2	0
11	Kate Hawkins		0	1	1	4	0	3	2
11	Christopher Hurt		2	0	1	3	4	1	0
11	John Lampkin		2	3	0	3	1	1	1
11	Daniel Larsen		0	1	2	0	0	7	1
11	Barbara Lin		1	2	1	2	4	1	0
11	Evan Mahnken		1	2	1	4	1	2	0
11	Alfio Micci		1	0	2	5	2	1	0
11	Yacob Yonas		0	1	1	1	2	2	4
10	Bill Ballard		0	3	4	2	1	0	0
10	George Barany		2	0	1	0	3	2	2
10	Milo Beckman		0	1	1	1	4	2	1
10	Derek Bowman		1	1	0	0	6	2	0
10	Shannon Burns		0	3	0	0	2	4	1
10	Levi Denham		0	1	1	4	2	2	0
10	Rebecca Goldstein		2	1	2	1	3	0	1
10	Francis Heaney		3	0	1	4	2	0	0
10	Eileen Lexau		0	3	2	3	1	0	1
10	Kurt Mengel		0	5	4	1	0	0	0
10	Alan Olschwang		1	0	1	2	1	5	0
10	Amanda Rafkin		0	1	3	5	0	1	0
10	Susan Harrington Smith		0	0	3	3	4	0	0
10	Mel Taub		0	1	0	5	2	1	1
9	Marjorie Berg		0	9	0	0	0	0	0
9	Ori Brian	✅	1	1	1	2	1	2	1
9	Daniel C. Bryant		6	0	0	0	3	0	0
9	Trent H. Evans		0	4	2	0	0	2	1
9	Nick Grivas		0	2	4	3	0	0	0
9	Jake Halperin		0	0	1	3	5	0	0
9	Christina Houlihan Kelly		0	6	2	0	1	0	0
9	Ellen Leuschner		3	2	2	0	2	0	0
9	Robert Malinow		4	1	3	1	0	0	0
9	Sophia Maymudes		2	0	0	0	2	4	1
9	Hal Moore		1	0	0	2	1	4	1
9	Derrick Niederman		9	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Jennifer Nutt		0	6	1	2	0	0	0
9	Jim Peredo		2	2	1	3	1	0	0
9	David Poole		0	2	1	3	3	0	0
9	David Pringle		0	3	2	0	3	1	0
9	Lewis Rothlein		2	0	0	0	7	0	0
9	Michael Schlossberg		3	2	1	1	2	0	0
9	Gary Steinmehl		0	1	2	2	1	2	1
9	Ben Tausig		5	0	0	0	4	0	0
9	Bill Thompson		0	1	4	1	3	0	0
9	Xan Vongsathorn		2	0	0	0	4	1	2
9	Stanley B. Whitten		0	3	2	2	2	0	0
9	Joy L. Wouk		0	2	4	0	2	0	1
9	Nam Jin Yoon		0	0	0	0	0	4	5
8	Peter Abide		2	0	2	0	4	0	0
8	Christopher Adams		2	0	3	1	1	1	0
8	Diane C. Baldwin		1	1	4	2	0	0	0
8	Evan Birnholz		0	0	0	1	1	2	4
8	Kelsey Blakley		5	0	0	3	0	0	0
8	Ella Dershowitz		2	1	3	0	2	0	0
8	John Dunn		1	5	1	0	0	1	0
8	Adam Fromm		4	0	0	1	1	1	1
8	Katie Hale		6	1	1	0	0	0	0
8	Paul Hunsberger		1	0	4	2	1	0	0
8	Greg Johnson		0	3	1	1	0	1	2
8	Betty Jorgensen		0	1	1	0	5	1	0
8	James R. Leeds		1	0	2	1	4	0	0
8	Wyna Liu		2	0	1	0	0	2	3
8	Simon Marotte		0	4	2	1	0	1	0
8	Christopher Page		0	0	6	0	1	0	1
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
8	Janice M. Putney		0	6	2	0	0	0	0
8	Corey Rubin		0	0	0	2	2	3	1
8	Herre Schouwerwou		0	1	1	3	3	0	0
8	Bob Sefick		0	0	1	0	2	4	1
8	Simeon Seigel		0	0	0	1	7	0	0
8	Margaret Seikel		0	1	4	1	0	2	0
8	Jeff Stillman		0	1	4	3	0	0	0
8	John Westwig		1	1	1	0	2	0	3
8	Kathy Wienberg		1	3	2	2	0	0	0
8	Leonard Williams		1	0	3	3	0	0	1
8	Raymond C. Young		0	0	0	1	3	1	3
7	Scott Atkinson		0	1	1	0	1	2	2
7	Alex Bajcz		2	0	1	3	1	0	0
7	Barry Boone		0	1	2	2	1	1	0
7	William S. Cotter		0	0	2	0	1	1	3
7	Ricky Cruz		1	0	1	1	3	0	1
7	Joel Davajan		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
7	Sharon Delorme		0	1	3	1	2	0	0
7	Michael Dewey		0	3	0	4	0	0	0
7	David Distenfeld		0	1	0	0	0	3	3
7	Chase Dittrich		1	1	0	3	2	0	0
7	Alison Donald		0	5	1	1	0	0	0
7	Michael J. Doran		1	1	4	1	0	0	0
7	Johanna Fenimore		0	2	2	2	1	0	0
7	Pawel Fludzinski		1	1	0	2	2	1	0
7	Jan-Michele Gianette		0	4	2	1	0	0	0
7	Robert W. Harris		4	0	1	2	0	0	0
7	Thomas Heilman		0	1	1	0	0	1	4
7	Jeremy Horwitz		1	2	0	0	3	0	1
7	Norma Johnson		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
7	Steve Kahn		2	3	1	0	1	0	0
7	Pamela Amick Klawitter		4	0	1	1	1	0	0
7	John D. Leavy		0	2	1	4	0	0	0
7	David Ainslie Macleod		0	1	1	1	2	2	0
7	John Scott Marrone		0	0	1	0	1	1	4
7	Kevin McCann		1	0	2	0	2	2	0
7	Chris A. McGlothlin		1	0	1	1	0	2	2
7	Kurt Mueller		2	1	1	1	1	0	1
7	Rafael Musa		3	0	0	0	0	4	0
7	Jean O'Conor		1	2	1	2	1	0	0
7	Merl Reagle		4	0	1	0	1	1	0
7	Claire Rimkus		0	0	1	0	1	5	0
7	Michael Sharp		1	1	2	1	1	1	0
7	Mike Shenk		2	0	0	1	1	0	3
7	Nancy Stark		2	0	0	3	2	0	0
7	James Tuttle		0	3	2	0	2	0	0
7	Hoang-Kim Vu		0	2	1	0	2	2	0
7	Alan Jay Weiss		0	1	1	1	1	2	1

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

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