Recovering 24 word wallet

So, i made a wallet and staked my ada a long time ago. Today i wanted to check on it but somehow the paper with my seed phrase was damaged by water, from what i can see, it had only 24 words. 7 of them are damaged.

From those 7, i managed to see 5 by the pressure the pen left, I’m 99% sure they are correct, the pen left visible pressure.

2 of them are more difficult…

Of one, i can see the first letter, but the rest is very vague. I think I’m seeing letters but those do not line up with the first letter i think i can see.

The last one is completely wiped at the start, no pressure, but the final 4 letters are somewhat clear and narrow it down to a handfull of options with 2 being far more likely.

Additionally, i also found the appdata folder of that old pc, with daedalus mainnet in there, im sure i used the wallet on it, but the secret key folder is empty.

Any ideas would help. I figured guessing all combinations might be my best shot, but due to a handicap, typing, copy pasting, and just going between the wallet and word list is going to take ages.

Obviously I’m not replying to any dm’s.

Thank you!

I think @HeptaSean wrote a script to brute force a missing word. Maybe he could help you out.

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That would be great. Luckily, i have the advantage that i can narrow it down by a lot, so bruteforcing might be in the realm of possibilities.

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Look how far this might help you:

Of course, feel free to ask more details.

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