Yes for instance you might reconstruct the actual seed by putting the numbered words in order like so: `2 7 5 6 9 4 10 12 8 1 11 3`.
Discussion
Hypothetically, lets say someone else has access to your washers, and changes the order, without knowing the purpose of the words. Would that make it harder for you to recover the proper order?
I mean, the numbers are stamped on there to *look* as if they go in normal bip39 defined sequence, afaik I would be the only one that knows I hafta put them in the example `2 7 5 6 9 4 10 12 8 1 11 3` order to properly reconstruct. Prolly not a viable solution for everyone, but I have a thing for remembering number sequences. 🤣
Ah I get it. Only you know the proper sequence. Whatever order the washers are when you collect them, you know how to rearrange them. So there’s a small portion of your seed phrase that is in your mind (the sequence).
Aha! It's pretty trivial to just try all possible combos, but average person that would know what to do with a seed phrase would not go past the "Well I entered this seed and ain't shit here!" phase.
It’s a clever way to create a plausible deniability seed phrase. The answer is in there somewhere, they just have no idea