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Junior Variant: Junior

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Maxes in Junior games in English currently earn a silver pencil silver 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
25 May 20095 October 2010pencil pencil
6 October 201029 March 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 March 201125 June 2011pencil pencil
26 June 20116 August 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 August 20134 February 2016silver pencil silver pencil
5 February 20161 April 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 April 20163 June 2016pencil pencil
4 June 20168 September 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
9 September 201731 December 2017silver pencil silver pencil
1 January 201831 March 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 April 20181 June 2018silver pencil silver pencil
2 June 201813 October 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 October 201816 October 2018silver pencil silver pencil
17 October 20189 March 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 March 20195 June 2019silver pencil silver pencil
6 June 20193 September 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 September 201910 September 2019silver pencil silver pencil
11 September 20195 November 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
6 November 201927 December 2019silver pencil silver pencil
28 December 201930 March 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
31 March 202026 April 2020silver pencil silver pencil
27 April 202030 August 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
31 August 20203 October 2020silver pencil silver pencil
4 October 202024 March 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 March 202121 May 2021silver pencil silver pencil
22 May 20214 February 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 February 202221 September 2022silver pencil silver pencil
22 September 202230 December 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
31 December 202225 January 2025silver pencil silver pencil
26 January 202515 April 2025gold pencil gold pencil
16 April 2025Nowsilver pencil silver pencil

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