Byron wallet restored with 0 balance

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I am so sorry! I am a little fool.

First of, the metal plate is totally fine. But I noted the BIP 39 code equivalents for the 12 words with 4 numbers to decode each word. One example: 0192 is 192 in the list. Because the 0 gets deleted.

And that’s my BIG mistake! I deleted every 0. So for example the code: 0070 is 70. But I noted the word 7 and deleted the zero. So absolutely my fault.

I got to this only by luck because I tried a script (my first script ever) on my macbook, what is described here: Got 11 phrases for recovery, how can I get the 12th?

I changed the script with Chat GPT to find the word for position 7 instead of position 12. And then with much luck I got the real wallet on try 10 or something :slight_smile: It was like I remembered each word by look – but word 7 looked unknown for me. So I tried this (first).

Here is my Script if someone else needs to restore a seed phrase with only 11 words out of 12 words known.

var bip39 = require('bip39')

var wordlist = bip39.wordlists.EN

// Ersetze diese Wörter mit deinen ersten sechs bekannten Wörtern.
var firstSix = 'abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon'

// Gehe durch die gesamte Wortliste
wordlist.forEach(function(mnemonic) {
    var tryThis = firstSix + ' ' + mnemonic + ' ' + 'abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon'

    if (bip39.validateMnemonic(tryThis)){
        console.log('Found: ' + mnemonic)
    }
})

Big Sorry!
And big thank you for your quick replies!