Quote from: HCP on February 01, 2019, 05:17:01 AM

I think you might be approaching this in the wrong way... but I'm a bit confused as to what you do and don't have with regards to words and addresses.

You say you have 14 possible words? Do you mean you added 2 extra words... and jumbled up the word order? Huh

As for the number of "legitimate arrangements", I think you'll find the correct checksum percentage is quite a bit lower than 5%. Given a set of 11 words, in my testing, only 4 or 5 words out of the 2048 word list will then generate the correct checksum when used as the 12th word.

I have a script that I have used for fixing 1 or 2 word errors in a seed... and it can generate and test seed combinations to see if they are valid, then generate 200 privatekeys and addresses from each "valid" seed that it finds at a fairly quick rate.

Also, I assume you don't remember or have a record of ANY address that you previously used from this seed?

Here is a clarification. I generated the 12 word seed. Then I though I had a bomb method to rearrange them. I show an example with 6 words.
word 0, word 1, word 2, word 3, word 4, word 5
I then though of a number that was important to me, lets say 142201
So then I would first write down word 1, then word 4 etc. Giving me
Word 1, word 4, word 2, word 3, word 0, word 5.

At least, this is how I though I did it. But after having checked most of these possibilities I am starting to wonder where I fudged up.

Then I wrote a story to conceal the words.
Bla bla bla word 0, bla bla bla word 4, bla bla bla word 2, bla bla word 3 etc.
And by accident, I put in words in my story that was also part of the BIP39 word list.

I have ruled it down to 14-15 words now. I could take different approaches in how to solve this, either by simply bruteforceing all of them, or trying to make out the arrangement which they were ordered in.

However, when I do this I need to be able to check the fastest way possible, hence, asking for your help. I hope that the checksumed ones would be less than 5%, but that's the number I got after generating some millions of scrambled 12 word seeds. Another thing I might look into is as you said, try to find a corresponding address so I have any clue which address I am looking for.

TLDR; Yes, I am an idiot, I did not only screw up the order, I put in additional words