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Maxes in Normal games in English currently earn a gold pencil gold 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
8 August 200811 August 2008pencil pencil
12 August 200813 August 2008bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 August 200815 August 2008silver pencil silver pencil
16 August 200816 August 2008bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 August 200813 August 2009pencil pencil
14 August 20094 January 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 January 201211 September 2015silver pencil silver pencil
12 September 201516 November 2015gold pencil gold pencil
17 November 20151 February 2016silver pencil silver pencil
2 February 201626 May 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 May 201825 September 2024silver pencil silver pencil
26 September 2024Nowgold pencil gold pencil

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