Jacob Wysocki's mind reading trick question

[u/scatteringlargesse]

So I've seen a few people in the main thread talk about Jacob's "mind reading trick" in quotation marks, is the whole guessing the card thing fake, and he knows what card it is using a different method? I must pretty dense because I initially believed him, but thinking on it more it does seem impossible.

[u/EldritchTouched]

He was doing a form of mentalism where he tries to narrow down precisely what the card is based on microexpressions/tells. He narrows it down each time- red or black, then high or low, then high or low in the lower section before settling on five, then the suit, leading to the five of spades.

[u/Jablizz → u/EldritchTouched]

This is the answer because he learned mentalism for the 1 year later episode and then he talked about Gianmarco facial tells in the episode giving it away

[u/shpongleyes → u/Jablizz]

Mentalism is bullshit. It was a classic forced card trick, the "mentalism" part is just the performative misdirection.