Stephanie Lewis, Speller 247 and a Nebraska eighth grader, got out on "cacaxte," a square wooden packing frame or crate that has four legs and a net cover and is carried on the back especially by native Guatemalans with the help of a sling.
Joel Chandler, Speller 249, from Michigan, misspelled "teras," an organism that is perceptibly abnormal in structure due to genetic or developmental causes.