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jatill · Daedalian Member

On a 4x4 boggle board with 'A' in the upper-left corner, and 'D' in the bottom-left, I made these words:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CLOWNS
SLEDGE
ELEMENTS
GEEKS
MELONS
CAMELEONS

What was the board?

novice · No harm. Pun intended!

jatill · Daedalian Member

DejMar · (Possibly a robot)

The grid solution is as follows:

Code:

A E N T
M C K S
G E L N
D E O W

Following, the corresponding letter positions are given in (row,column) format:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(1,1)(2,2)(2,3)(3,4)(4,3)(4,4)(3,3)(4,2)(4,1)(3,1)(3,2)(2,1)(1,2)(1,3)(1,4)(2,4)
CLOWNS
(2,2)(3,3)(4,3)(4,4)(3,4)(2,4)
SLEDGE
(2,4)(3,3)(3,2)(4,1)(3,1)(4,2) or (2,4)(3,3)(4,2)(4,1)(3,1)(3,2)
ELEMENTS
(4,2)(3,3)(3,2)(2,1)(1,2)(1,3)(1,4)(2,4)
GEEKS
(3,1)(4,2)(3,2)(2,3)(2,4)
MELONS
(2,1)(3,2)(3,3)(4,3)(3,4)(2,4)
CAMELEONS
(2,2)(1,1)(2,1)(3,2)(3,3)(4,2)(4,3)(3,4)(2,4)