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Maxes in Normal games in Hebrew currently earn a pencil 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
26 June 201028 June 2010bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 June 20105 August 2012pencil pencil
6 August 201218 August 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
19 August 201228 November 2014pencil pencil
29 November 201420 December 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
21 December 201423 August 2015pencil pencil
24 August 20152 December 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 December 20152 July 2017pencil pencil
3 July 201716 October 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 October 201727 December 2017pencil pencil
28 December 20179 May 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 May 20183 December 2019pencil pencil
4 December 20192 January 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 January 20207 May 2020pencil pencil
8 May 202030 September 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 October 202014 January 2021pencil pencil
15 January 202121 May 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 May 202124 March 2022pencil pencil
25 March 20226 April 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 April 20224 May 2023pencil pencil
5 May 20234 June 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 June 20232 September 2023silver pencil silver pencil
3 September 20234 September 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 September 202315 September 2023pencil pencil
16 September 202319 December 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 December 202326 May 2024pencil pencil
27 May 202425 September 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 September 2024Nowpencil pencil

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