The game is you're trying to guess a long word 23 letters long and your buddy can only tell you a number below 10K, although you are allowed to share dictionari

The game is you're trying to guess a long word 23 letters long and your buddy can only tell you a number below 10K, although you are allowed to share dictionaries... You ask your buddy what the correct word is, and a dictionary holding all 23 letter combinations would be incredibly long, however in English there's not really all that many words, so your buddy can simply tell you the right word is on page 2352 of the dictionary and the word you pick might not be it, but it'll be close enough. I tried to avoid using 5 yr old words to explain EE telecom coding, which isn't going to help much, so this is more "in the spirit of the problem" than being an exact analogy.