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Hitting for the cycle in the Modern Era by author name

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by author name

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

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

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