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Maxes in Normal games in Italian 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
15 January 20102 November 2017pencil pencil
3 November 201731 January 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 February 201817 April 2018pencil pencil
18 April 201822 May 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 May 201819 December 2019pencil pencil
20 December 201929 December 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 December 201926 April 2020pencil pencil
27 April 202015 May 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 May 202020 November 2020pencil pencil
21 November 202016 April 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 April 202127 April 2022pencil pencil
28 April 202228 April 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 April 202215 August 2023pencil pencil
16 August 202327 August 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 August 2023Nowpencil pencil

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