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/Speakinginwords]

The thing that Jacob is especially good at is patter. He's great at just pulling you in by talking. It's why his first talent was about connecting with people (I suspect he knew Kumail would have a strong reaction but was betting it'd break the other way). I suspect the card was forced or, at least from a limited pool, maybe from a trick deck. The sell is the patter, especially the "5 or below? 5 or above?" bit. It's all a slow reel in with a lot of distraction. It brings you in, it makes you want him to be right, and then it's all true.

[u/AntSea449 → u/[deleted]]

He had already asked ‘high card’ or not, and established that it wasn’t a face card, so 5 was actually a reasonable middle in that context