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Hyper Nasty Variant: Hyper Nasty

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Maxes in Hyper Nasty games in English 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
23 March 201323 March 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 March 201321 June 2013pencil pencil
22 June 201311 November 2013bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 November 20131 March 2014pencil pencil
2 March 201425 April 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 April 20142 July 2014pencil pencil
3 July 201419 July 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 July 201416 August 2014pencil pencil
17 August 201416 December 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 December 201517 May 2016pencil pencil
18 May 201624 January 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 January 201714 October 2017pencil pencil
15 October 201731 May 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
1 June 20182 June 2018pencil pencil
3 June 20182 August 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 August 201810 December 2018pencil pencil
11 December 201822 June 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 June 201927 August 2019pencil pencil
28 August 201923 March 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 March 202014 April 2020silver pencil silver pencil
15 April 20201 October 2020bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 October 202027 February 2021pencil pencil
28 February 202116 June 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 June 202115 October 2021pencil pencil
16 October 20217 January 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 January 20227 April 2022pencil pencil
8 April 20223 June 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
4 June 202223 June 2022silver pencil silver pencil
24 June 202223 September 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 September 20227 October 2022silver pencil silver pencil
8 October 202213 October 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 October 20228 January 2023silver pencil silver pencil
9 January 202316 September 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 September 202319 September 2023silver pencil silver pencil
20 September 202322 February 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 February 20241 May 2024silver pencil silver pencil
2 May 202413 July 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
14 July 20256 December 2025silver pencil silver pencil
7 December 2025Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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