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Spoilage Variant: Spoilage

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Maxes in Spoilage games in Dutch 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
20 September 201013 July 2012pencil pencil
14 July 201225 September 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 September 201231 December 2013pencil pencil
1 January 201431 March 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 April 201419 April 2014pencil pencil
20 April 20149 January 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 January 201519 April 2015pencil pencil
20 April 201518 July 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
19 July 20152 April 2020pencil pencil
3 April 20201 July 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 July 2020Nowpencil pencil

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