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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, 87 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
120	Peter A. Collins	✅	7	13	25	41	16	10	8	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
160	Jeff Chen	✅	44	11	17	28	37	11	12	11
189	David J. Kahn	✅	44	6	14	26	60	13	26	6
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
189	Rich Norris	✅	18	1	4	14	16	16	120
246	Manny Nosowsky	✅	29	4	7	14	41	122	29	4
109	Peter Gordon	✅	9	43	26	13	11	5	2	2
91	Patrick Merrell	✅	22	10	5	13	34	5	2	2
22	Nancy S. Ross		2	0	1	13	6	0	0
52	Alex Eaton-Salners	✅	5	4	11	12	17	2	1
116	Harvey Estes	✅	20	15	15	12	19	27	8	8
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
19	Michael S. Maurer		3	0	1	11	3	1	0
52	Will Nediger		23	0	3	11	2	2	11
68	A. J. Santora	✅	5	1	3	11	20	16	12
25	Greg Staples		4	2	1	11	7	0	0
79	Erik Agard	✅	11	8	9	9	10	14	18	8
42	Chuck Deodene		0	2	3	9	8	12	8
138	Joe DiPietro		31	1	0	9	24	43	30
40	Samuel A. Donaldson	✅	10	2	5	9	7	1	6
65	Joel Fagliano	✅	18	9	12	9	11	3	3	3
110	David Steinberg	✅	10	7	8	9	16	34	26	7
34	Jacob Stulberg		4	6	5	9	6	4	0
40	Gary Cee	✅	1	14	10	8	4	2	1
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
81	Zhouqin Burnikel	✅	6	27	22	7	5	11	3	3
32	Richard Chisholm		1	12	9	7	3	0	0
47	Victor Fleming	✅	7	5	10	7	6	6	6	5
37	Tracy Gray	✅	12	5	4	7	7	1	1
19	Brandon Koppy		2	1	0	7	3	4	2
26	Andy Kravis	✅	5	1	3	7	4	3	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
17	Daniel Raymon		1	2	6	6	1	1	0
29	Lou Sabin	✅	7	4	4	6	4	2	2	2
30	Matthew Stock	✅	8	1	2	6	2	7	4
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
23	Joe Deeney	✅	2	2	2	5	5	2	5	2
40	Frances Hansen	✅	17	2	4	5	9	2	1
16	Kate Hawkins		0	2	1	5	0	6	2
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
41	Natan Last	✅	8	1	2	5	3	10	12
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
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
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
10	Levi Denham		0	1	1	4	2	2	0
7	Michael Dewey		0	3	0	4	0	0	0
10	Francis Heaney		3	0	1	4	2	0	0
24	David Kwong	✅	5	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
10	Jeffrey Martinovic		2	0	2	4	2	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
10	Rich Proulx		1	1	0	4	3	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	Adam Aaronson		0	1	2	3	0	0	8
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
7	Dan Caprera		0	0	1	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
47	Sam Ezersky	✅	8	2	1	3	5	7	21
17	Charles E. Gersch		0	1	0	3	0	6	7
20	Rebecca Goldstein	✅	5	2	2	3	5	1	2
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	Brooke Husic		1	1	0	3	1	8	7
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
15	Barbara Lin	✅	1	2	2	3	4	1	2
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
10	Hal Moore		1	0	0	3	1	4	1
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
54	Doug Peterson	✅	6	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
9	Brad Wiegmann		3	1	0	3	1	1	0
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
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
17	Freddie Cheng	✅	1	5	6	2	1	1	1
19	Kevin Christian		0	11	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
18	Todd Gross	✅	4	2	1	2	5	1	3
48	Damon J. Gulczynski	✅	1	6	6	2	11	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
9	Gary Larson		2	2	2	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
20	John Lieb	✅	1	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
11	Jacob McDermott		0	0	3	2	0	4	2
87	Andrea Carla Michaels		7	63	12	2	3	0	0
18	Pete Muller		6	0	4	2	5	0	1
23	Stanley Newman	✅	1	9	3	2	5	2	1
28	Jeremy Newton		19	1	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
14	Michael Schlossberg		7	2	1	2	2	0	0
13	Martin Schneider		5	2	2	2	1	0	1
15	Simeon Seigel		1	0	0	2	11	0	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
50	Robyn Weintraub	✅	1	2	3	2	1	34	7
9	Stanley B. Whitten		0	3	2	2	2	0	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
8	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano		1	1	3	1	0	2	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
12	Daniel Bodily		3	1	3	1	4	0	0
10	Billy Bratton		0	0	1	1	1	3	4
12	Sam Buchbinder		0	2	6	1	0	2	1
11	John R. Conrad		0	1	3	1	3	2	1
7	Paul Coulter		2	1	3	1	0	0	0
7	Ricky Cruz		1	0	1	1	3	0	1
7	Joel Davajan		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
8	Chandi Deitmer		6	0	0	1	0	0	1
7	Sharon Delorme		0	1	3	1	2	0	0
12	Ella Dershowitz		2	1	3	1	5	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
8	Daniel Grinberg		3	1	1	1	1	1	0
31	Christina Iverson	✅	11	3	5	1	2	4	5
10	Adrian Johnson		1	1	0	1	0	4	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
19	Evan Kalish	✅	1	5	5	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
20	Michael Lieberman	✅	4	5	4	1	3	2	1
17	Aimee Lucido		3	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
10	Sophia Maymudes		2	0	0	1	2	4	1
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
9	Margaret Seikel		0	1	4	1	0	2	1
7	Michael Sharp		1	1	2	1	1	1	0
7	Mike Shenk		2	0	0	1	1	0	3
8	Blake Slonecker		0	0	0	1	2	2	3
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
22	Adam Wagner		7	1	5	1	8	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
7	Jem Burch		0	0	0	0	2	4	1
21	Rand H. Burns		0	0	0	0	4	1	16
10	Shannon Burns		0	3	0	0	2	4	1
9	Garrett Chalfin		2	2	1	0	2	0	2
7	Evans Clinchy		0	0	0	0	0	4	3
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
11	Trent H. Evans		0	5	2	0	0	3	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
11	Katie Hale		9	1	1	0	0	0	0
7	Malaika Handa		0	1	1	0	1	4	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
9	John Kugelman		8	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	Daniel Larsen		0	1	2	0	0	7	1
9	Ellen Leuschner		3	2	2	0	2	0	0
8	Zachary David Levy		1	4	3	0	0	0	0
9	Wyna Liu		3	0	1	0	0	2	3
7	John Scott Marrone		0	0	1	0	1	1	4
7	Kevin McCann		1	0	2	0	2	2	0
30	Ryan McCarty		1	0	0	0	1	2	26
12	Todd McClary		1	0	3	0	4	2	2
8	Hemant Mehta		0	0	0	0	0	5	3
31	Dana Motley		2	0	0	0	1	7	21
25	James Mulhern		0	1	2	0	0	10	12
16	Rafael Musa		5	0	0	0	0	8	3
10	Derrick Niederman		10	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Christopher Page		0	0	6	0	1	0	1
27	Paolo Pasco		5	3	0	0	3	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
10	Lewis Rothlein		2	0	0	0	7	0	1
8	Bob Sefick		0	0	1	0	2	4	1
8	Sarah Sinclair		0	1	2	0	2	3	0
18	Sid Sivakumar		5	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
12	Hoang-Kim Vu		1	2	1	0	2	2	4
9	John Westwig		2	1	1	0	2	0	3
7	David P. Williams		0	0	0	0	1	1	5
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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