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Maxes in Normal games in Spanish 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 201029 May 2016pencil pencil
30 May 201613 June 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 June 201629 April 2017pencil pencil
30 April 201711 August 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 August 20176 February 2019pencil pencil
7 February 201914 March 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
15 March 201925 July 2019pencil pencil
26 July 20197 October 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 October 20198 April 2020pencil pencil
9 April 202022 April 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 April 20205 December 2020pencil pencil
6 December 20206 October 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 October 202124 December 2021pencil pencil
25 December 202125 July 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 July 202224 September 2023pencil pencil
25 September 202330 December 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
31 December 202314 August 2024pencil pencil
15 August 202428 September 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 September 20249 January 2025pencil pencil
10 January 202516 June 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 June 202521 October 2025pencil pencil
22 October 202524 October 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 October 202530 January 2026pencil pencil
31 January 202613 August 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 August 2026Nowpencil pencil

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