Māyā

@mayaofauckland · Cryptic crosswords by Māyā · Substack profile · Games

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Māyā has 153 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #89 on Substack's Games Rising board. 7 publications recommend them, and they recommend 7.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 2 h ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 153; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 121; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 7; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 7
Bestsellers rank: none; Rising #89, Games

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Māyā on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	153		121

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Games Rising	#89	#41	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Games Rising	41	59	59	89	▼48

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

7 publications recommend Māyā. Māyā recommends 7, and 3 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 7 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2023-12	2
2024-01	1
2025-08	1
2025-10	1
2025-11	1
2026-08	1

Recommended by

The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 24, 2026
Niklas's Substackstarted Nov 13, 2025
The Shed cryptic crosswordstarted Oct 2025
WriterCon Magazinestarted Aug 2025
The Dark Rain Chroniclestarted Jan 2024 · mutual
Darby’s Vinodiversity Communitystarted Dec 2023 · mutual
Darby’s Cryptic Discussionsstarted Dec 2023 · mutual

Recommends

An Uncommon Landstarted Oct 19, 2026new
The Word Emporiumstarted Sep 28, 2026
The Dark Rain Chroniclestarted Jan 2024 · mutual
Darby’s Vinodiversity Communitystarted Jan 2024 · mutual
Darby’s Cryptic Discussionsstarted Jan 2024 · mutual
JKL Crosswordsstarted May 2022
Daily Crossword Linksstarted May 2022

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Games writers with under 1,000 followers (47 writers in that group), but not Māyā.

Reconnect Recap
recommends 5 of them
Gamedev Relay
recommends 4 of them
Jogos a se Julgar
recommends 4 of them
Jim Mander@jmander
recommends 3 of them
Game Music Analysis Club
recommends 3 of them
Margot Plays Video Games
recommends 3 of them
The Learning Arcade
recommends 3 of them
Jason Schweitz
recommends 3 of them
The Video Game Storyteller@thevideogamestoryteller
recommends 2 of them
Harrison Polites@harrisonpolites
recommends 2 of them