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Maxes in Normal games in Dutch 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
14 November 200914 September 2020pencil pencil
15 September 202027 October 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 October 202128 May 2022pencil pencil
29 May 20222 December 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 December 202222 August 2025pencil pencil
23 August 202519 September 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 September 202522 July 2026pencil pencil
23 July 2026Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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