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Maxes in Hyper games in English currently earn a bronze pencil bronze pencil.

Pencil colour is based on the rate of pencils recently awarded in this variant and dictionary per round played. The rarer the pencils become, the higher the award (from normal to bronze to silver to gold).

FromToPencil
13 August 200830 July 2012pencil pencil
31 July 20129 November 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 November 201210 July 2013pencil pencil
11 July 20133 March 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 March 201426 June 2014pencil pencil
27 June 201412 June 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
13 June 20154 July 2015silver pencil silver pencil
5 July 20151 April 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 April 20164 August 2016pencil pencil
5 August 201626 November 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 November 20167 March 2017pencil pencil
8 March 201723 August 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 August 201721 July 2018pencil pencil
22 July 201822 September 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 September 201824 December 2018pencil pencil
25 December 201813 June 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 June 201919 October 2019pencil pencil
20 October 201920 May 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
21 May 202021 August 2020pencil pencil
22 August 202022 December 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 December 202420 May 2025silver pencil silver pencil
21 May 20251 October 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 October 20259 December 2025silver pencil silver pencil
10 December 202514 July 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
15 July 202628 July 2026silver pencil silver pencil
29 July 2026Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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