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Hitting for the cycle in the Modern Era by Wednesdays

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by Wednesdays

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
119	Peter A. Collins	✅	7	13	25	41	16	10	7	7
123	Alan Arbesfeld	✅	23	11	25	37	25	1	1
185	Nancy Salomon	✅	36	33	53	37	19	6	1
84	Richard Silvestri		26	0	1	36	16	1	4
219	Elizabeth C. Gorski	✅	67	16	36	34	39	24	3	3
189	David J. Kahn	✅	44	6	14	26	60	13	26	6
151	Jeff Chen	✅	41	10	15	25	37	11	12	10
106	Fred Piscop	✅	14	25	26	25	5	2	9	2
177	Brendan Emmett Quigley	✅	38	5	15	21	19	52	27	5
89	Paula Gamache	✅	8	13	18	15	12	17	6	6
59	Patrick Blindauer	✅	14	6	6	14	17	1	1
187	Rich Norris	✅	18	1	4	14	16	16	118
246	Manny Nosowsky	✅	29	4	7	14	41	122	29	4
91	Patrick Merrell	✅	22	10	5	13	34	5	2	2
22	Nancy S. Ross		2	0	1	13	6	0	0
116	Harvey Estes	✅	20	15	15	12	19	27	8	8
107	Peter Gordon	✅	9	43	26	12	11	5	1
63	Bruce Haight		3	18	18	12	6	6	0
74	Randall J. Hartman		0	34	24	12	3	1	0
35	Richard Hughes	✅	2	5	10	12	2	1	3
31	Jonathan Schmalzbach		1	3	15	12	0	0	0
54	Ross Trudeau		10	6	20	12	6	0	0
38	Wayne Robert Williams	✅	4	4	3	12	8	4	3	3
53	Ed Early	✅	1	9	17	11	7	4	4
48	Alex Eaton-Salners	✅	4	4	9	11	17	2	1
19	Michael S. Maurer		3	0	1	11	3	1	0
68	A. J. Santora	✅	5	1	3	11	20	16	12
25	Greg Staples		4	2	1	11	7	0	0
77	Erik Agard	✅	11	8	7	9	10	14	18	7
42	Chuck Deodene		0	2	3	9	8	12	8
137	Joe DiPietro		31	1	0	9	23	43	30
65	Joel Fagliano	✅	18	9	12	9	11	3	3	3
48	Will Nediger		22	0	2	9	2	2	11
109	David Steinberg	✅	10	7	8	9	15	34	26	7
34	Jacob Stulberg		4	6	5	9	6	4	0
40	Gary Cee	✅	1	14	10	8	4	2	1
39	Samuel A. Donaldson	✅	10	2	5	8	7	1	6
25	Lee Glickstein		6	0	6	8	5	0	0
22	Jules P. Markey		0	1	6	8	7	0	0
30	Adam G. Perl		1	8	10	8	3	0	0
44	Edward Sessa	✅	4	12	7	8	6	5	2	2
13	Mark Elliot Skolsky		0	1	3	8	1	0	0
79	Zhouqin Burnikel	✅	6	27	22	7	5	9	3	3
32	Richard Chisholm		1	12	9	7	3	0	0
47	Victor Fleming	✅	7	5	10	7	6	6	6	5
36	Tracy Gray	✅	11	5	4	7	7	1	1
15	Brandon Koppy		2	1	0	7	1	3	1
25	Andy Kravis	✅	5	1	3	7	4	2	3
87	Joe Krozel	✅	4	1	4	7	24	26	21
39	Allan E. Parrish		0	14	14	7	2	1	1
51	Michael Shteyman	✅	3	3	6	7	17	6	9	3
11	Karen Young Bonin		3	0	1	6	1	0	0
19	Adam Cohen		0	1	5	6	2	2	3
33	John Farmer	✅	2	1	3	6	10	8	3
58	Matt Gaffney		14	0	1	6	15	15	7
29	Mary Lou Guizzo	✅	3	1	2	6	3	8	6
13	Daniel Kantor		0	0	5	6	1	1	0
55	Ian Livengood	✅	6	17	6	6	7	11	2	2
55	Timothy Polin		8	6	9	6	24	0	2
29	Lou Sabin	✅	7	4	4	6	4	2	2	2
19	Jeffrey Wechsler		0	2	4	6	6	1	0
25	Ned White		1	2	0	6	2	5	9
42	Eric Berlin	✅	14	1	3	5	2	15	2
27	Kevan Choset		2	2	10	5	7	0	1
40	Frances Hansen	✅	17	2	4	5	9	2	1
24	Michael Hawkins	✅	1	2	1	5	1	8	6
15	Jim Hilger		1	1	1	5	7	0	0
53	Sarah Keller		0	21	25	5	2	0	0
39	Natan Last	✅	8	1	2	5	2	10	11
26	Julian Lim	✅	2	1	2	5	4	3	9
35	Tom McCoy		19	8	1	5	2	0	0
11	Alfio Micci		1	0	2	5	2	1	0
70	Jim Page		10	0	0	5	14	18	23
10	Amanda Rafkin		0	1	3	5	0	1	0
15	Daniel Raymon		1	2	5	5	1	1	0
12	Matthew Sewell		2	1	0	5	1	2	1
18	Lois Sidway		0	0	3	5	10	0	0
92	Barry C. Silk	✅	3	5	8	5	3	27	41	3
25	Matthew Stock	✅	7	1	2	5	2	5	3
10	Mel Taub		0	1	0	5	2	1	1
26	David Levinson Wilk	✅	7	1	3	5	2	7	1
84	Cathy Allis		40	0	0	4	35	4	1
15	Gareth Bain		0	4	3	4	1	1	2
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
22	Myles Callum	✅	1	1	4	4	1	6	5
13	Amanda Chung		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
18	Joe Deeney	✅	1	2	2	4	3	2	4
10	Levi Denham		0	1	1	4	2	2	0
7	Michael Dewey		0	3	0	4	0	0	0
13	Kate Hawkins		0	1	1	4	0	5	2
10	Francis Heaney		3	0	1	4	2	0	0
23	David Kwong	✅	4	2	3	4	7	2	1
7	John D. Leavy		0	2	1	4	0	0	0
35	Caleb Madison	✅	9	1	5	4	5	6	5
11	Evan Mahnken		1	2	1	4	1	2	0
15	Ruth B. Margolin		5	0	2	4	4	0	0
13	Karl Ni		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
13	Stu Ockman		0	0	0	4	6	0	3
27	Tony Orbach		17	0	4	4	1	0	1
43	Trip Payne	✅	10	3	4	4	6	3	13	3
8	Rich Proulx		0	1	0	4	2	1	0
25	Fran Sabin	✅	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	2
17	Thomas W. Schier		0	5	4	4	1	2	1
29	Dan Schoenholz		11	3	7	4	4	0	0
19	Bruce Venzke		2	2	6	4	3	2	0
21	Finn Vigeland		10	1	3	4	0	1	2
14	Michael Vuolo		0	3	3	4	2	2	0
14	Seth A. Abel		6	1	1	3	1	2	0
7	Alex Bajcz		2	0	1	3	1	0	0
11	Sheldon Benardo		0	6	0	3	2	0	0
53	Sherry O. Blackard	✅	1	7	9	3	1	21	11
8	Kelsey Blakley		5	0	0	3	0	0	0
13	Mike Buckley		0	4	3	3	3	0	0
19	Emily Carroll	✅	2	5	2	3	4	1	2
37	Trenton Charlson	✅	3	1	2	3	7	9	12
15	Kelly Clark		1	1	4	3	5	1	0
33	Tim Croce		0	1	3	3	2	8	16
16	Robert Dillman		0	9	3	3	1	0	0
9	Chase Dittrich		1	1	0	3	4	0	0
44	Sam Ezersky	✅	7	2	1	3	5	7	19
17	Charles E. Gersch		0	1	0	3	0	6	7
21	Bernice Gordon		0	12	6	3	0	0	0
9	Nick Grivas		0	2	4	3	0	0	0
40	John Guzzetta	✅	1	5	6	3	5	11	9
10	Jake Halperin		0	1	1	3	5	0	0
22	Tyler Hinman	✅	2	1	6	3	3	3	4
22	Kristian House	✅	1	1	6	3	4	2	5
11	Christopher Hurt		2	0	1	3	4	1	0
21	Jim Hyres	✅	1	6	6	3	2	1	2
15	William I. Johnston		0	1	0	3	5	3	3
16	Patrick Jordan		0	3	6	3	4	0	0
12	Jay Kaskel		0	2	6	3	0	1	0
26	Nancy Kavanaugh		0	10	10	3	1	2	0
23	Andrew Kingsley	✅	1	3	3	3	3	5	5
11	John Lampkin		2	3	0	3	1	1	1
13	Roy Leban		2	2	4	3	2	0	0
10	Eileen Lexau		0	3	2	3	1	0	1
69	Frank Longo		15	0	1	3	7	14	29
18	Gilbert H. Ludwig		0	1	2	3	5	5	2
18	Kyle Mahowald		2	3	0	3	2	6	2
15	Gene Newman		0	4	6	3	1	1	0
25	joon pahk	✅	4	1	2	3	4	2	9
9	Jim Peredo		2	2	1	3	1	0	0
53	Doug Peterson	✅	5	3	8	3	3	13	18	3
9	David Poole		0	2	1	3	3	0	0
115	Randolph Ross		50	1	0	3	17	19	25
8	Herre Schouwerwou		0	1	1	3	3	0	0
10	Susan Harrington Smith		0	0	3	3	4	0	0
22	Randy Sowell		0	12	6	3	1	0	0
7	Nancy Stark		2	0	0	3	2	0	0
17	Norma Steinberg		1	10	2	3	1	0	0
9	Jeff Stillman		0	1	4	3	0	0	1
19	Michael Torch		3	3	7	3	2	1	0
19	Alex Vratsanos	✅	3	1	4	3	3	1	4
101	Byron Walden	✅	14	1	2	3	9	3	69
15	Gary J. Whitehead		0	3	3	3	4	0	2
60	Brad Wilber		0	1	4	3	0	14	38
8	Leonard Williams		1	0	3	3	0	0	1
14	Norman S. Wizer		2	2	2	3	2	3	0
21	Stella Zawistowski	✅	1	3	6	3	2	3	3
12	Adam Aaronson		0	1	1	2	0	0	8
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
12	Howard Barkin		3	3	0	2	2	1	1
7	Barry Boone		0	1	2	2	1	1	0
11	Eric Bornstein		0	5	2	2	1	1	0
9	Ori Brian	✅	1	1	1	2	1	2	1
16	Freddie Cheng	✅	1	4	6	2	1	1	1
18	Kevin Christian		0	10	4	2	0	1	1
15	Ethan Cooper		1	4	4	2	4	0	0
42	Kevin G. Der	✅	12	2	1	2	4	11	10
66	Mark Diehl		1	2	0	2	7	17	37
7	Johanna Fenimore		0	2	2	2	1	0	0
22	Gerald R. Ferguson		0	1	2	2	2	6	9
14	Jason Flinn		0	1	1	2	5	0	5
7	Pawel Fludzinski		1	1	0	2	2	1	0
12	Ernie Furtado		3	4	3	2	0	0	0
17	Susan Gelfand		0	9	5	2	1	0	0
12	John Greenman		1	5	4	2	0	0	0
46	Damon J. Gulczynski	✅	1	6	6	2	9	11	11
27	Raymond Hamel	✅	3	4	4	2	4	4	6	2
7	Robert W. Harris		4	0	1	2	0	0	0
16	Oliver Hill		3	5	3	2	3	0	0
25	Henry Hook		6	0	0	2	9	4	4
8	Paul Hunsberger		1	0	4	2	1	0	0
20	Brooke Husic		1	1	0	2	1	8	7
7	Gary Larson		1	2	1	2	1	0	0
100	Lynn Lempel		4	73	17	2	1	3	0
13	David Liben-Nowell	✅	1	1	1	2	3	4	1
19	John Lieb		0	4	3	2	3	1	6
11	Barbara Lin		1	2	1	2	4	1	0
13	Elizabeth A. Long		1	4	2	2	3	1	0
7	Daniel Mauer		1	1	0	2	3	0	0
85	Andrea Carla Michaels		7	61	12	2	3	0	0
9	Hal Moore		1	0	0	2	1	4	1
18	Pete Muller		6	0	4	2	5	0	1
23	Stanley Newman	✅	1	9	3	2	5	2	1
26	Jeremy Newton		18	0	2	2	4	0	0
50	Mike Nothnagel	✅	4	4	2	2	7	25	6	2
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
26	Andrew Ries	✅	3	1	1	2	1	8	10
8	Corey Rubin		0	0	0	2	2	3	1
36	Stephanie Spadaccini		0	16	17	2	0	0	1
9	Gary Steinmehl		0	1	2	2	1	2	1
21	Carolyn W. Stewart		1	10	7	2	1	0	0
10	Bill Thompson		0	1	4	2	3	0	0
26	Sam Trabucco		5	1	0	2	3	6	9
14	John Underwood		0	1	6	2	3	1	1
19	Ashish Vengsarkar		8	1	0	2	5	1	2
14	Arthur S. Verdesca		1	1	8	2	1	1	0
48	Robyn Weintraub	✅	1	2	3	2	1	32	7
9	Stanley B. Whitten		0	3	2	2	2	0	0
7	Brad Wiegmann		3	1	0	2	0	1	0
8	Kathy Wienberg		1	3	2	2	0	0	0
60	Robert H. Wolfe		11	0	0	2	11	5	31
17	David Woolf	✅	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2
15	Bill Zais		10	0	2	2	1	0	0
12	Robert Zimmerman		0	3	6	2	1	0	0
8	Christopher Adams		2	0	3	1	1	1	0
7	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano		1	1	3	1	0	1	0
10	Milo Beckman		0	1	1	1	4	2	1
27	Janet R. Bender		1	14	10	1	1	0	0
8	Evan Birnholz		0	0	0	1	1	2	4
14	Michael Blake		0	8	3	1	2	0	0
7	Daniel Bodily		2	0	1	1	3	0	0
7	Billy Bratton		0	0	1	1	1	1	3
11	Sam Buchbinder		0	2	5	1	0	2	1
11	John R. Conrad		0	1	3	1	3	2	1
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
9	Ella Dershowitz		2	1	3	1	2	0	0
17	Kyle T. Dolan	✅	1	1	4	1	1	5	4
7	Alison Donald		0	5	1	1	0	0	0
7	Michael J. Doran		1	1	4	1	0	0	0
15	Daniel A. Finan		9	0	2	1	3	0	0
12	Neville Fogarty		1	1	4	1	4	1	0
12	Olivia Mitra Framke		4	1	5	1	1	0	0
8	Adam Fromm		4	0	0	1	1	1	1
12	Don Gagliardo		3	1	5	1	2	0	0
7	Jan-Michele Gianette		0	4	2	1	0	0	0
15	Rebecca Goldstein	✅	3	2	2	1	4	1	2
17	Todd Gross	✅	4	2	1	1	5	1	3
26	Christina Iverson	✅	10	3	5	1	2	2	3
8	Greg Johnson		0	3	1	1	0	1	2
7	Norma Johnson		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
48	Nancy Nicholson Joline		34	2	0	1	1	2	8
18	Evan Kalish	✅	1	5	4	1	1	5	1
15	Craig Kasper		4	3	0	1	2	3	2
60	Bob Klahn	✅	13	1	3	1	2	14	26
7	Pamela Amick Klawitter		4	0	1	1	1	0	0
8	James R. Leeds		1	0	2	1	4	0	0
15	Michael Lieberman		4	4	3	1	2	1	0
16	Aimee Lucido		2	2	5	1	2	4	0
7	David Ainslie Macleod		0	1	1	1	2	2	0
9	Robert Malinow		4	1	3	1	0	0	0
8	Simon Marotte		0	4	2	1	0	1	0
7	Jacob McDermott		0	0	3	1	0	3	0
7	Chris A. McGlothlin		1	0	1	1	0	2	2
10	Kurt Mengel		0	5	4	1	0	0	0
7	Kurt Mueller		2	1	1	1	1	0	1
15	Dean Niles		8	0	1	1	0	2	3
116	Gregory E. Paul		0	86	29	1	0	0	0
16	Tom Pepper	✅	1	4	3	1	2	3	2
8	Glenton Petgrave		0	0	0	1	1	1	5
20	David Phillips		1	0	2	1	2	7	7
14	Mel Rosen	✅	5	1	1	1	1	3	2
11	Michael Schlossberg		5	2	1	1	2	0	0
12	Martin Schneider		5	2	2	1	1	0	1
12	Simeon Seigel		1	0	0	1	9	0	1
8	Margaret Seikel		0	1	4	1	0	2	0
7	Michael Sharp		1	1	2	1	1	1	0
7	Mike Shenk		2	0	0	1	1	0	3
7	Blake Slonecker		0	0	0	1	2	2	2
16	Daniel R. Stark		0	0	0	1	3	2	10
13	Grant Thackray		3	0	0	1	5	2	2
14	Brian Thomas		0	4	2	1	1	1	5
19	Adam Wagner		6	1	5	1	6	0	0
7	Alan Jay Weiss		0	1	1	1	1	2	1
40	Peter Wentz		2	0	0	1	2	15	20
29	Bryant White		5	0	0	1	4	8	11
11	Yacob Yonas		0	1	1	1	2	2	4
8	Raymond C. Young		0	0	0	1	3	1	3
18	Andrew Zhou		3	0	2	1	6	3	3
8	Peter Abide		2	0	2	0	4	0	0
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
7	Scott Atkinson		0	1	1	0	1	2	2
10	George Barany		2	0	1	0	3	2	2
9	Marjorie Berg		0	9	0	0	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
8	Garrett Chalfin		2	2	1	0	1	0	2
24	Kameron Austin Collins		0	0	0	0	1	7	16
7	William S. Cotter		0	0	2	0	1	1	3
20	Charles M. Deber		19	0	0	0	1	0	0
7	David Distenfeld		0	1	0	0	0	3	3
8	John Dunn		1	5	1	0	0	1	0
10	Trent H. Evans		0	5	2	0	0	2	1
8	Rachel Fabi		1	1	1	0	1	2	2
11	Mark Feldman		3	4	2	0	2	0	0
46	Matt Ginsberg		17	0	3	0	16	4	6
13	Gail Grabowski		0	5	8	0	0	0	0
9	Katie Hale		7	1	1	0	0	0	0
11	Nelson Hardy		7	0	1	0	1	2	0
14	Frederick J. Healy		0	1	0	0	0	3	10
7	Thomas Heilman		0	1	1	0	0	1	4
7	Jeremy Horwitz		1	2	0	0	3	0	1
12	Roland Huget		0	1	1	0	0	2	8
8	Betty Jorgensen		0	1	1	0	5	1	0
14	Alex K. Justin		4	2	0	0	2	3	3
7	Steve Kahn		2	3	1	0	1	0	0
9	Christina Houlihan Kelly		0	6	2	0	1	0	0
24	Josh Knapp		2	0	1	0	2	9	10
11	Daniel Larsen		0	1	2	0	0	7	1
9	Ellen Leuschner		3	2	2	0	2	0	0
8	Wyna Liu		2	0	1	0	0	2	3
7	John Scott Marrone		0	0	1	0	1	1	4
9	Sophia Maymudes		2	0	0	0	2	4	1
7	Kevin McCann		1	0	2	0	2	2	0
26	Ryan McCarty		1	0	0	0	1	2	22
12	Todd McClary		1	0	3	0	4	2	2
31	Dana Motley		2	0	0	0	1	7	21
25	James Mulhern		0	1	2	0	0	10	12
11	Rafael Musa		4	0	0	0	0	6	1
9	Derrick Niederman		9	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Christopher Page		0	0	6	0	1	0	1
24	Paolo Pasco		4	3	0	0	1	7	9
8	Con Pederson		8	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Bob Peoples		3	0	3	0	1	11	21
9	David Pringle		0	3	2	0	3	1	0
8	Janice M. Putney		0	6	2	0	0	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
7	Claire Rimkus		0	0	1	0	1	5	0
50	Sidney L. Robbins		0	48	2	0	0	0	0
9	Lewis Rothlein		2	0	0	0	7	0	0
8	Bob Sefick		0	0	1	0	2	4	1
17	Sid Sivakumar		4	1	0	0	3	1	8
9	Ben Tausig		5	0	0	0	4	0	0
32	Karen M. Tracey		0	0	4	0	2	4	22
14	Dave Tuller		3	1	1	0	2	3	4
7	James Tuttle		0	3	2	0	2	0	0
9	Xan Vongsathorn		2	0	0	0	4	1	2
10	Hoang-Kim Vu		1	2	1	0	2	2	2
9	John Westwig		2	1	1	0	2	0	3
14	John Wolting		1	0	0	0	0	12	1
9	Joy L. Wouk		0	2	4	0	2	0	1
9	Nam Jin Yoon		0	0	0	0	0	4	5

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

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