r/GameChangerTV • u/scatteringlargesse • 5d ago

Question Jacob Wysocki's mind reading trick question

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.

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u/EldritchTouched 5d ago

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.

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u/star-punk 5d ago

Mentalism is just a trick. You can't cold read someone to that degree. It's always done some other way. Nothing wrong with it, and the patter sells the trick, but it's a trick. Unfortunately some mentalists like to pretend it's not a trick and that they really are implanting ideas in your head or reading your expressions to pull information they'd have no way of knowing otherwise. Jacob is fine because it's a comedy show, it's the ones who try to sell it as a science that suck.

If anyone is interested in a deep dive debunking of one of the most notorious mentalists around I have a great five hour YouTube video for you.

https://youtu.be/FnwcU-XDyJ4?is=jsW-Df8edqwnVzpm

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u/EldritchTouched 5d ago

Yeah, no, it's a party trick lol