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Hitting for the cycle in the Modern Era by Thursdays

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by Thursdays

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