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Maxes in Unlimited 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 December 200828 January 2011pencil pencil
29 January 201127 June 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 June 201128 December 2011pencil pencil
29 December 20117 March 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 March 20147 June 2014pencil pencil
8 June 201430 January 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
31 January 201614 June 2016pencil pencil
15 June 20167 July 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
8 July 20162 November 2016pencil pencil
3 November 201625 March 2018bronze pencil bronze pencil
26 March 20185 August 2018pencil pencil
6 August 201811 June 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
12 June 201928 July 2019pencil pencil
29 July 201922 September 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 September 202130 October 2021silver pencil silver pencil
31 October 202122 March 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 March 202330 April 2023silver pencil silver pencil
1 May 20236 August 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 August 202325 September 2023silver pencil silver pencil
26 September 202315 December 2023bronze pencil bronze pencil
16 December 202325 February 2024silver pencil silver pencil
26 February 20246 September 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
7 September 20241 November 2024silver pencil silver pencil
2 November 202416 July 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 July 2026Nowsilver pencil silver pencil

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