ie, anyone can crack it with 8 tries if they have the first 11

actually, they really should point that out in the BIP-39 spec

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also, if you give them 11 out of 12 words in any case, other than that special last word case, they only need to try 2048 options and you are done

would be better to memorise the word and the position and not the last