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Originally Posted by bluedragon  |
Based on what you see in that clip and nothing else, there's no "mentalist" way he could know his PIN number.
There may have been something we weren't shown before the clip was recorded, or there were "stooges" involved, or the guy was in on it. A lot of "TV Magicians" nowadays cheat by using editing and TV trickery. Or there is also the possibility of "magician's miracle" in some situations.
What happens with "magician's miracle" is that there is also a random chance that a magician can guess something once. While performing a trick, a magician simply makes a guess that he couldn't possibly know. In most cases the magician will be wrong, but that's ok because him being wrong is part of the trick and built into the patter. BUT, once in a you fluke out as a magician and guess right and then people think you performed a "miracle". If that happens, you STOP right here and proclaim that was the trick.
I once did a trick where someone picked a card from a deck of cards they were holding, then put the card into the middle of the deck, then shuffled the deck over and over again, and then put it down on the table. I then asked them to flip the card on top. When they flipped it over, I asked them "Was that your card?" and their eyes got really big.
It wasn't supposed to be their card, and the trick was supposed to continue on, but since I fluked out and actually got them to shuffle their own card to the top of the deck, I realized I hit a 'magician's miracle' moment and milked it. That guy still has no idea how I made him shuffle the cards in such a way as to put his card on top.
I'm not saying that DB is using this method here, but TV does blur a lot of lines with what is mentalism and what is just setup TV trickery.