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Hitting for the cycle in the Modern Era by Saturdays

Counts by day of week for constructors sorted by Saturdays

So far, 85 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	Rich Norris	✅	18	1	4	14	16	16	120
101	Byron Walden	✅	14	1	2	3	9	3	69
227	Patrick Berry	✅	74	1	2	4	16	79	51
92	Barry C. Silk	✅	3	5	8	5	3	27	41	3
60	Brad Wilber		0	1	4	3	0	14	38
66	Mark Diehl		1	2	0	2	7	17	37
60	Robert H. Wolfe		11	0	0	2	11	5	31
138	Joe DiPietro		31	1	0	9	24	43	30
69	Frank Longo		15	0	1	3	7	14	29
246	Manny Nosowsky	✅	29	4	7	14	41	122	29	4
177	Brendan Emmett Quigley	✅	38	5	15	21	19	52	27	5
189	David J. Kahn	✅	44	6	14	26	60	13	26	6
60	Bob Klahn	✅	13	1	3	1	2	14	26
109	David Steinberg	✅	10	7	8	9	15	34	26	7
115	Randolph Ross		50	1	0	3	17	19	25
27	Ryan McCarty		1	0	0	0	1	2	23
70	Jim Page		10	0	0	5	14	18	23
32	Karen M. Tracey		0	0	4	0	2	4	22
87	Joe Krozel	✅	4	1	4	7	24	26	21
31	Dana Motley		2	0	0	0	1	7	21
39	Bob Peoples		3	0	3	0	1	11	21
46	Sam Ezersky	✅	8	2	1	3	5	7	20
41	David Quarfoot		1	0	1	0	2	17	20
40	Peter Wentz		2	0	0	1	2	15	20
78	Erik Agard	✅	11	8	8	9	10	14	18	8
54	Doug Peterson	✅	6	3	8	3	3	13	18	3
21	Rand H. Burns		0	0	0	0	4	1	16
24	Kameron Austin Collins		0	0	0	0	1	7	16
33	Tim Croce		0	1	3	3	2	8	16
80	Martin Ashwood-Smith		0	0	0	0	3	62	15
43	Trip Payne	✅	10	3	4	4	6	3	13	3
37	Trenton Charlson	✅	3	1	2	3	7	9	12
156	Jeff Chen	✅	43	10	17	26	37	11	12	10
40	Natan Last	✅	8	1	2	5	2	10	12
25	James Mulhern		0	1	2	0	0	10	12
68	A. J. Santora	✅	5	1	3	11	20	16	12
53	Sherry O. Blackard	✅	1	7	9	3	1	21	11
48	Damon J. Gulczynski	✅	1	6	6	2	11	11	11
51	Will Nediger		23	0	3	10	2	2	11
29	Bryant White		5	0	0	1	4	8	11
42	Kevin G. Der	✅	12	2	1	2	4	11	10
14	Frederick J. Healy		0	1	0	0	0	3	10
24	Josh Knapp		2	0	1	0	2	9	10
26	Andrew Ries	✅	3	1	1	2	1	8	10
16	Daniel R. Stark		0	0	0	1	3	2	10
22	Gerald R. Ferguson		0	1	2	2	2	6	9
40	John Guzzetta	✅	1	5	6	3	5	11	9
26	Julian Lim	✅	2	1	2	5	4	3	9
25	joon pahk	✅	4	1	2	3	4	2	9
27	Paolo Pasco		5	3	0	0	3	7	9
106	Fred Piscop	✅	14	25	26	25	5	2	9	2
51	Michael Shteyman	✅	3	3	6	7	17	6	9	3
26	Sam Trabucco		5	1	0	2	3	6	9
25	Ned White		1	2	0	6	2	5	9
13	Adam Aaronson		0	1	1	3	0	0	8
120	Peter A. Collins	✅	7	13	25	41	16	10	8	7
42	Chuck Deodene		0	2	3	9	8	12	8
116	Harvey Estes	✅	20	15	15	12	19	27	8	8
12	Roland Huget		0	1	1	0	0	2	8
48	Nancy Nicholson Joline		34	2	0	1	1	2	8
18	Sid Sivakumar		5	1	0	0	3	1	8
58	Matt Gaffney		14	0	1	6	15	15	7
17	Charles E. Gersch		0	1	0	3	0	6	7
21	Brooke Husic		1	1	0	3	1	8	7
20	David Phillips		1	0	2	1	2	7	7
49	Robyn Weintraub	✅	1	2	3	2	1	33	7
40	Samuel A. Donaldson	✅	10	2	5	9	7	1	6
47	Victor Fleming	✅	7	5	10	7	6	6	6	5
89	Paula Gamache	✅	8	13	18	15	12	17	6	6
46	Matt Ginsberg		17	0	3	0	16	4	6
29	Mary Lou Guizzo	✅	3	1	2	6	3	8	6
27	Raymond Hamel	✅	3	4	4	2	4	4	6	2
24	Michael Hawkins	✅	1	2	1	5	1	8	6
19	John Lieb		0	4	3	2	3	1	6
50	Mike Nothnagel	✅	4	4	2	2	7	25	6	2
22	Myles Callum	✅	1	1	4	4	1	6	5
14	Jason Flinn		0	1	1	2	5	0	5
22	Kristian House	✅	1	1	6	3	4	2	5
23	Andrew Kingsley	✅	1	3	3	3	3	5	5
35	Caleb Madison	✅	9	1	5	4	5	6	5
8	Glenton Petgrave		0	0	0	1	1	1	5
14	Brian Thomas		0	4	2	1	1	1	5
9	Nam Jin Yoon		0	0	0	0	0	4	5
14	Ashton Anderson		0	1	0	0	0	9	4
8	Evan Birnholz		0	0	0	1	1	2	4
10	Billy Bratton		0	0	1	1	1	3	4
21	Joe Deeney	✅	2	2	2	4	5	2	4	2
17	Kyle T. Dolan	✅	1	1	4	1	1	5	4
53	Ed Early	✅	1	9	17	11	7	4	4
7	Thomas Heilman		0	1	1	0	0	1	4
22	Tyler Hinman	✅	2	1	6	3	3	3	4
25	Henry Hook		6	0	0	2	9	4	4
30	Christina Iverson	✅	11	3	5	1	2	4	4
7	John Scott Marrone		0	0	1	0	1	1	4
16	Caitlin Reid		3	1	1	0	2	5	4
84	Richard Silvestri		26	0	1	36	16	1	4
29	Matthew Stock	✅	8	1	2	6	2	6	4
14	Dave Tuller		3	1	1	0	2	3	4
19	Alex Vratsanos	✅	3	1	4	3	3	1	4
12	Hoang-Kim Vu		1	2	1	0	2	2	4
11	Yacob Yonas		0	1	1	1	2	2	4
80	Zhouqin Burnikel	✅	6	27	22	7	5	10	3	3
7	Evans Clinchy		0	0	0	0	0	4	3
19	Adam Cohen		0	1	5	6	2	2	3
7	William S. Cotter		0	0	2	0	1	1	3
7	David Distenfeld		0	1	0	0	0	3	3
65	Joel Fagliano	✅	18	9	12	9	11	3	3	3
33	John Farmer	✅	2	1	3	6	10	8	3
219	Elizabeth C. Gorski	✅	67	16	36	34	39	24	3	3
18	Todd Gross	✅	4	2	1	2	5	1	3
35	Richard Hughes	✅	2	5	10	12	2	1	3
8	Adrian Johnson		0	1	0	1	0	3	3
15	William I. Johnston		0	1	0	3	5	3	3
14	Alex K. Justin		4	2	0	0	2	3	3
26	Andy Kravis	✅	5	1	3	7	4	3	3
9	Wyna Liu		3	0	1	0	0	2	3
8	Hemant Mehta		0	0	0	0	0	5	3
15	Dean Niles		8	0	1	1	0	2	3
13	Stu Ockman		0	0	0	4	6	0	3
7	Mike Shenk		2	0	0	1	1	0	3
8	Blake Slonecker		0	0	0	1	2	2	3
9	John Westwig		2	1	1	0	2	0	3
38	Wayne Robert Williams	✅	4	4	3	12	8	4	3	3
8	Raymond C. Young		0	0	0	1	3	1	3
21	Stella Zawistowski	✅	1	3	6	3	2	3	3
18	Andrew Zhou		3	0	2	1	6	3	3
11	Michael Ashley		7	0	0	0	0	2	2
7	Scott Atkinson		0	1	1	0	1	2	2
15	Gareth Bain		0	4	3	4	1	1	2
10	George Barany		2	0	1	0	3	2	2
42	Eric Berlin	✅	14	1	3	5	2	15	2
19	Emily Carroll	✅	2	5	2	3	4	1	2
8	Garrett Chalfin		2	2	1	0	1	0	2
8	Rachel Fabi		1	1	1	0	1	2	2
18	Rebecca Goldstein	✅	5	2	2	2	4	1	2
109	Peter Gordon	✅	9	43	26	13	11	5	2	2
14	Kate Hawkins		0	1	1	4	0	6	2
21	Jim Hyres	✅	1	6	6	3	2	1	2
8	Greg Johnson		0	3	1	1	0	1	2
15	Craig Kasper		4	3	0	1	2	3	2
17	Brandon Koppy		2	1	0	7	2	3	2
55	Ian Livengood	✅	6	17	6	6	7	11	2	2
18	Gilbert H. Ludwig		0	1	2	3	5	5	2
18	Kyle Mahowald		2	3	0	3	2	6	2
12	Todd McClary		1	0	3	0	4	2	2
7	Chris A. McGlothlin		1	0	1	1	0	2	2
91	Patrick Merrell	✅	22	10	5	13	34	5	2	2
13	Rafael Musa		4	0	0	0	0	7	2
16	Tom Pepper	✅	1	4	3	1	2	3	2
55	Timothy Polin		8	6	9	6	24	0	2
14	Mel Rosen	✅	5	1	1	1	1	3	2
25	Fran Sabin	✅	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	2
29	Lou Sabin	✅	7	4	4	6	4	2	2	2
44	Edward Sessa	✅	4	12	7	8	6	5	2	2
13	Grant Thackray		3	0	0	1	5	2	2
19	Ashish Vengsarkar		8	1	0	2	5	1	2
21	Finn Vigeland		10	1	3	4	0	1	2
9	Xan Vongsathorn		2	0	0	0	4	1	2
15	Gary J. Whitehead		0	3	3	3	4	0	2
17	David Woolf	✅	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2
84	Cathy Allis		40	0	0	4	35	4	1
123	Alan Arbesfeld	✅	23	11	25	37	25	1	1
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
59	Patrick Blindauer	✅	14	6	6	14	17	1	1
9	Ori Brian	✅	1	1	1	2	1	2	1
12	Sam Buchbinder		0	2	6	1	0	2	1
10	Shannon Burns		0	3	0	0	2	4	1
40	Gary Cee	✅	1	14	10	8	4	2	1
17	Freddie Cheng	✅	1	5	6	2	1	1	1
27	Kevan Choset		2	2	10	5	7	0	1
18	Kevin Christian		0	10	4	2	0	1	1
11	John R. Conrad		0	1	3	1	3	2	1
7	Ricky Cruz		1	0	1	1	3	0	1
7	Chandi Deitmer		6	0	0	0	0	0	1
51	Alex Eaton-Salners	✅	4	4	11	12	17	2	1
11	Trent H. Evans		0	5	2	0	0	3	1
8	Adam Fromm		4	0	0	1	1	1	1
37	Tracy Gray	✅	12	5	4	7	7	1	1
40	Frances Hansen	✅	17	2	4	5	9	2	1
7	Jeremy Horwitz		1	2	0	0	3	0	1
19	Evan Kalish	✅	1	5	5	1	1	5	1
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
10	Eileen Lexau		0	3	2	3	1	0	1
13	David Liben-Nowell	✅	1	1	1	2	3	4	1
14	Barbara Lin	✅	1	2	2	3	4	1	1
9	Sophia Maymudes		2	0	0	0	2	4	1
9	Jacob McDermott		0	0	3	1	0	4	1
10	Hal Moore		1	0	0	3	1	4	1
7	Kurt Mueller		2	1	1	1	1	0	1
18	Pete Muller		6	0	4	2	5	0	1
23	Stanley Newman	✅	1	9	3	2	5	2	1
27	Tony Orbach		17	0	4	4	1	0	1
8	Christopher Page		0	0	6	0	1	0	1
39	Allan E. Parrish		0	14	14	7	2	1	1
8	Corey Rubin		0	0	0	2	2	3	1
185	Nancy Salomon	✅	36	33	53	37	19	6	1
17	Thomas W. Schier		0	5	4	4	1	2	1
13	Martin Schneider		5	2	2	2	1	0	1
8	Bob Sefick		0	0	1	0	2	4	1
14	Simeon Seigel		1	0	0	2	10	0	1
9	Margaret Seikel		0	1	4	1	0	2	1
12	Matthew Sewell		2	1	0	5	1	2	1
36	Stephanie Spadaccini		0	16	17	2	0	0	1
9	Gary Steinmehl		0	1	2	2	1	2	1
9	Jeff Stillman		0	1	4	3	0	0	1
10	Mel Taub		0	1	0	5	2	1	1
14	John Underwood		0	1	6	2	3	1	1
7	Alan Jay Weiss		0	1	1	1	1	2	1
26	David Levinson Wilk	✅	7	1	3	5	2	7	1
8	Leonard Williams		1	0	3	3	0	0	1
14	John Wolting		1	0	0	0	0	12	1
9	Joy L. Wouk		0	2	4	0	2	0	1
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
8	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano		1	1	3	1	0	2	0
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
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
14	Michael Blake		0	8	3	1	2	0	0
8	Kelsey Blakley		5	0	0	3	0	0	0
11	Daniel Bodily		3	1	3	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
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
13	Amanda Chung		1	1	5	4	2	0	0
15	Kelly Clark		1	1	4	3	5	1	0
15	Ethan Cooper		1	4	4	2	4	0	0
7	Joel Davajan		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
20	Charles M. Deber		19	0	0	0	1	0	0
7	Sharon Delorme		0	1	3	1	2	0	0
10	Levi Denham		0	1	1	4	2	2	0
11	Ella Dershowitz		2	1	3	1	4	0	0
7	Michael Dewey		0	3	0	4	0	0	0
16	Robert Dillman		0	9	3	3	1	0	0
9	Chase Dittrich		1	1	0	3	4	0	0
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
11	Mark Feldman		3	4	2	0	2	0	0
7	Johanna Fenimore		0	2	2	2	1	0	0
15	Daniel A. Finan		9	0	2	1	3	0	0
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
12	Ernie Furtado		3	4	3	2	0	0	0
12	Don Gagliardo		3	1	5	1	2	0	0
17	Susan Gelfand		0	9	5	2	1	0	0
7	Jan-Michele Gianette		0	4	2	1	0	0	0
25	Lee Glickstein		6	0	6	8	5	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
63	Bruce Haight		3	18	18	12	6	6	0
11	Katie Hale		9	1	1	0	0	0	0
10	Jake Halperin		0	1	1	3	5	0	0
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
10	Francis Heaney		3	0	1	4	2	0	0
15	Jim Hilger		1	1	1	5	7	0	0
16	Oliver Hill		3	5	3	2	3	0	0
8	Paul Hunsberger		1	0	4	2	1	0	0
11	Christopher Hurt		2	0	1	3	4	1	0
7	Norma Johnson		1	2	3	1	0	0	0
16	Patrick Jordan		0	3	6	3	4	0	0
8	Betty Jorgensen		0	1	1	0	5	1	0
7	Steve Kahn		2	3	1	0	1	0	0
13	Daniel Kantor		0	0	5	6	1	1	0
12	Jay Kaskel		0	2	6	3	0	1	0
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
7	Pamela Amick Klawitter		4	0	1	1	1	0	0
7	John Kugelman		6	1	0	0	0	0	0
9	Gary Larson		2	2	2	2	1	0	0
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
8	Zachary David Levy		1	4	3	0	0	0	0
17	Michael Lieberman		4	5	3	1	3	1	0
13	Elizabeth A. Long		1	4	2	2	3	1	0
17	Aimee Lucido		3	2	5	1	2	4	0
7	David Ainslie Macleod		0	1	1	1	2	2	0
11	Evan Mahnken		1	2	1	4	1	2	0
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	Jeffrey Martinovic		1	0	2	2	2	0	0
7	Daniel Mauer		1	1	0	2	3	0	0
19	Michael S. Maurer		3	0	1	11	3	1	0
7	Kevin McCann		1	0	2	0	2	2	0
35	Tom McCoy		19	8	1	5	2	0	0
10	Kurt Mengel		0	5	4	1	0	0	0
11	Alfio Micci		1	0	2	5	2	1	0
86	Andrea Carla Michaels		7	62	12	2	3	0	0
15	Gene Newman		0	4	6	3	1	1	0
28	Jeremy Newton		19	1	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
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
116	Gregory E. Paul		0	86	29	1	0	0	0
8	Con Pederson		8	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Jim Peredo		2	2	1	3	1	0	0
30	Adam G. Perl		1	8	10	8	3	0	0
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
10	Amanda Rafkin		0	1	3	5	0	1	0
16	Daniel Raymon		1	2	6	5	1	1	0
7	Merl Reagle		4	0	1	0	1	1	0
7	Claire Rimkus		0	0	1	0	1	5	0
50	Sidney L. Robbins		0	48	2	0	0	0	0
22	Nancy S. Ross		2	0	1	13	6	0	0
9	Lewis Rothlein		2	0	0	0	7	0	0
13	Michael Schlossberg		6	2	1	2	2	0	0
31	Jonathan Schmalzbach		1	3	15	12	0	0	0
29	Dan Schoenholz		11	3	7	4	4	0	0
8	Herre Schouwerwou		0	1	1	3	3	0	0
7	Michael Sharp		1	1	2	1	1	1	0
18	Lois Sidway		0	0	3	5	10	0	0
13	Mark Elliot Skolsky		0	1	3	8	1	0	0
10	Susan Harrington Smith		0	0	3	3	4	0	0
22	Randy Sowell		0	12	6	3	1	0	0
25	Greg Staples		4	2	1	11	7	0	0
7	Nancy Stark		2	0	0	3	2	0	0
17	Norma Steinberg		1	10	2	3	1	0	0
21	Carolyn W. Stewart		1	10	7	2	1	0	0
34	Jacob Stulberg		4	6	5	9	6	4	0
9	Ben Tausig		5	0	0	0	4	0	0
10	Bill Thompson		0	1	4	2	3	0	0
19	Michael Torch		3	3	7	3	2	1	0
54	Ross Trudeau		10	6	20	12	6	0	0
7	James Tuttle		0	3	2	0	2	0	0
19	Bruce Venzke		2	2	6	4	3	2	0
14	Arthur S. Verdesca		1	1	8	2	1	1	0
14	Michael Vuolo		0	3	3	4	2	2	0
20	Adam Wagner		6	1	5	1	7	0	0
19	Jeffrey Wechsler		0	2	4	6	6	1	0
9	Stanley B. Whitten		0	3	2	2	2	0	0
9	Brad Wiegmann		3	1	0	3	1	1	0
8	Kathy Wienberg		1	3	2	2	0	0	0
14	Norman S. Wizer		2	2	2	3	2	3	0
15	Bill Zais		10	0	2	2	1	0	0
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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