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Aegilops Variant: Aegilops

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Maxes in Aegilops 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
17 June 201024 December 2011pencil pencil
25 December 20113 December 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 December 201812 December 2018silver pencil silver pencil
13 December 201815 June 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 June 201929 August 2019silver pencil silver pencil
30 August 20192 January 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 January 202217 January 2022silver pencil silver pencil
18 January 202216 September 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 September 202524 October 2025silver pencil silver pencil
25 October 202511 July 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 July 202621 July 2026silver pencil silver pencil
22 July 202623 July 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 July 2026Nowsilver pencil silver pencil

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