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Maxes in Normal games in Greek 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
4 February 201010 February 2010pencil pencil
11 February 201027 December 2010bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 December 201014 January 2011pencil pencil
15 January 201122 January 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 January 201120 April 2011pencil pencil
21 April 20113 February 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 February 201224 February 2012pencil pencil
25 February 201215 February 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 February 201325 May 2013pencil pencil
26 May 20132 September 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 September 201321 February 2014pencil pencil
22 February 201430 April 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 May 20147 May 2014pencil pencil
8 May 201426 June 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 June 201427 September 2014pencil pencil
28 September 201419 November 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 November 201418 December 2014pencil pencil
19 December 201427 December 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 December 201414 February 2017pencil pencil
15 February 201715 May 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 May 20179 March 2018pencil pencil
10 March 20186 June 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 June 201814 July 2018pencil pencil
15 July 201825 November 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 November 20186 November 2019pencil pencil
7 November 20192 January 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 January 202012 July 2020pencil pencil
13 July 202012 August 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
13 August 202023 November 2020pencil pencil
24 November 20203 May 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 May 202121 November 2021pencil pencil
22 November 202110 December 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 December 202119 May 2022pencil pencil
20 May 20227 August 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 August 20225 November 2022pencil pencil
6 November 202210 November 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 November 202221 June 2023pencil pencil
22 June 202314 September 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
15 September 202315 September 2023pencil pencil
16 September 202326 September 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 September 20238 October 2023pencil pencil
9 October 202327 October 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 October 202328 March 2024pencil pencil
29 March 20241 May 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 May 2024Nowpencil pencil

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