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Maxes in Hyper Unlimited 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
29 March 20095 June 2014pencil pencil
6 June 20149 October 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 October 20145 July 2015pencil pencil
6 July 20156 October 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 October 20156 January 2016pencil pencil
7 January 20169 February 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 February 201616 April 2016pencil pencil
17 April 201622 June 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 June 201619 October 2017pencil pencil
20 October 201713 February 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 February 201813 March 2018pencil pencil
14 March 201811 May 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 May 202021 August 2020pencil pencil
22 August 20202 January 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 January 202128 January 2021silver pencil silver pencil
29 January 202110 July 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 July 202114 July 2021silver pencil silver pencil
15 July 202121 July 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 July 202122 July 2021silver pencil silver pencil
23 July 202111 November 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 November 20223 December 2022silver pencil silver pencil
4 December 202222 December 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 December 202416 January 2025pencil pencil
17 January 202522 May 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 May 20255 July 2025pencil pencil
6 July 2025Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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