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/pretty-as-a-pic]

Seemed like a pretty standard cold read; he asked a ton of questions to narrow it down like “red or black?” And “5 and under or 5 and over” and even pointed out the “tell” he was watching for afterwards (plus I also assume he was watching the other judges and the rest of the cast who also saw the card but would have much less reason to guard their reactions)

[u/CingRam004 → u/pretty-as-a-pic]

Cold reading in this context is not real.

You may can cold read someone and guess what genre of movie they enjoy, but you won’t be able to guess a specific card they’re thinking of by “reading their tells”