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Maxes in Nice 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
20 April 201221 April 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 April 20122 January 2014silver pencil silver pencil
3 January 201429 March 2014gold pencil gold pencil
30 March 201414 July 2014silver pencil silver pencil
15 July 201428 October 2014gold pencil gold pencil
29 October 201423 February 2015silver pencil silver pencil
24 February 20156 August 2015gold pencil gold pencil
7 August 20158 January 2016silver pencil silver pencil
9 January 201612 March 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
13 March 201815 June 2018silver pencil silver pencil
16 June 201826 August 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 August 201830 August 2021silver pencil silver pencil
31 August 20214 May 2022gold pencil gold pencil
5 May 20222 June 2022silver pencil silver pencil
3 June 202221 December 2022gold pencil gold pencil
22 December 20221 June 2023silver pencil silver pencil
2 June 202322 August 2023gold pencil gold pencil
23 August 2023Nowsilver pencil silver pencil

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