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Maxes in Normal games in Portuguese 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
22 June 201022 May 2014pencil pencil
23 May 201429 June 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 June 20143 October 2015pencil pencil
4 October 201522 January 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 January 201621 June 2016pencil pencil
22 June 201629 September 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 September 201612 November 2016pencil pencil
13 November 201610 February 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 February 201727 October 2017pencil pencil
28 October 20179 February 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 February 201830 November 2018pencil pencil
1 December 20182 May 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 May 201929 March 2020pencil pencil
30 March 202022 June 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 June 202016 November 2020pencil pencil
17 November 202018 February 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
19 February 202117 April 2022pencil pencil
18 April 202227 July 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 July 202226 March 2023pencil pencil
27 March 202311 September 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 September 20232 April 2024pencil pencil
3 April 202417 July 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
18 July 202418 August 2025pencil pencil
19 August 202517 November 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
18 November 202515 June 2026pencil pencil
16 June 2026Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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