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Maxes in Normal games in Finnish 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 September 20104 February 2011pencil pencil
5 February 20111 April 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 April 201120 April 2011pencil pencil
21 April 20115 May 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
6 May 201116 July 2011pencil pencil
17 July 201126 January 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 January 201215 March 2012pencil pencil
16 March 201217 April 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
18 April 20123 August 2012pencil pencil
4 August 201216 October 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 October 20128 March 2013pencil pencil
9 March 201325 June 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 June 201326 September 2013pencil pencil
27 September 201314 October 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
15 October 201314 October 2014pencil pencil
15 October 201421 January 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 January 201521 June 2016pencil pencil
22 June 201619 September 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 September 201629 June 2017pencil pencil
30 June 20177 August 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 August 201722 August 2020pencil pencil
23 August 202014 February 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
15 February 20213 May 2021pencil pencil
4 May 202121 November 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 November 202116 February 2022pencil pencil
17 February 202229 May 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 May 202219 April 2023pencil pencil
20 April 20233 June 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 June 202319 September 2023pencil pencil
20 September 20233 January 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 January 20244 June 2024pencil pencil
5 June 202428 September 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 September 202410 August 2025pencil pencil
11 August 20258 November 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
9 November 202517 December 2025pencil pencil
18 December 202531 December 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 January 20262 April 2026silver pencil silver pencil
3 April 20268 April 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
9 April 20262 June 2026pencil pencil
3 June 20263 August 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 August 20269 August 2026pencil pencil
10 August 202615 August 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 August 2026Nowpencil pencil

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