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Maxes in Touchdown games in English currently earn a silver pencil silver 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
21 June 200913 September 2011pencil pencil
14 September 20117 March 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 March 201224 July 2012pencil pencil
25 July 201217 February 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
18 February 201620 May 2016pencil pencil
21 May 201615 July 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 July 20164 November 2016pencil pencil
5 November 201624 December 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 December 201626 March 2017pencil pencil
27 March 20178 April 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
9 April 20196 May 2019silver pencil silver pencil
7 May 201923 June 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 June 20211 July 2021silver pencil silver pencil
2 July 20211 December 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
2 December 20219 December 2021silver pencil silver pencil
10 December 202124 July 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
25 July 20223 October 2022silver pencil silver pencil
4 October 202210 July 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
11 July 20234 December 2023silver pencil silver pencil
5 December 20239 December 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 December 202311 February 2024silver pencil silver pencil
12 February 202411 May 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 May 202428 May 2024silver pencil silver pencil
29 May 20244 October 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 October 202416 March 2025silver pencil silver pencil
17 March 202528 June 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 June 2025Nowsilver pencil silver pencil

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