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Maxes in Normal games in German 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
20 November 20094 June 2017pencil pencil
5 June 201724 July 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 July 201723 December 2018pencil pencil
24 December 201818 July 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
19 July 201922 July 2019pencil pencil
23 July 201927 July 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 July 201925 November 2019pencil pencil
26 November 201913 April 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 April 202025 April 2020pencil pencil
26 April 202019 May 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 May 202017 February 2022pencil pencil
18 February 202216 July 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 July 202221 July 2022pencil pencil
22 July 202210 August 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 August 202225 March 2023pencil pencil
26 March 202321 October 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
22 October 202412 February 2025pencil pencil
13 February 202515 March 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 March 202529 April 2025pencil pencil
30 April 20252 September 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 September 202528 November 2025pencil pencil
29 November 20257 December 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 December 202514 August 2026pencil pencil
15 August 2026Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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