(KANSAS)  These are the child prodigies who used up all  the available words at a spelling bee, forcing organizers to stop the showdown  until they could find more.

When Sophia Hoffman, 11, and Kush Sharma, 13,  buzzed through the list of words over 47 rounds during Saturday’s Jackson County Spelling Bee, organizers had to pull  more from a dictionary.

Fierce competitors: The showdown between Sophia Hoffman and Kush Sharma will continue on March 8

But after blitzing the extra 20 words,  organizers decided to postpone the competition until March 8 because people were  too tired to continue.

‘It was legendary,’ said Mary Olive Thompson,  spelling bee co-coordinator said.

After 19 rounds in a Missouri county’s annual  spelling bee over the weekend, only two competitors out of the 25 remained –  Hoffman, a fifth-grader at Highland Park Elementary School in the Kansas City  suburb of Lee’s Summit, and Kush Sharma.

Onlookers were stunned when the students  effortlessly ran through a list of about 20 additional words bee officials  picked out of their Merriam-Webster’s 11th Edition during the lunch break, The Kansas City Star reported.  ( continue reading )

Brainy: Jackson County Spelling Bee organizers were forced to halt the showdown between Sophia Hoffman, 11, and Kush Sharma, 13, when they used up all the words over 47 rounds on Saturday

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