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Originally Posted by impaul99  Based on what you see in that clip and nothing else, there's no "mentalist" way he could know his PIN number.
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. |
But couldn't he watch the person's tiny eye movements, while the person involuntarily describes the number with his eyes? Or am I just being silly?
I am really curious how mentalists operate, but I really don't think he uses stoodges, otherwise, the trick would have absolutely NO appeal at all. Anyone could perform the "trick" if he knew the PIN in advance. It's the fact that everyone agrees no stoodges were used, that makes his tricks so powerful. I don't know - some of the tricks are really great, such as when he can guess when someone is lying 99.8 % of the time - I don't think it is really impossible. But if you are a mentalist, I'd be more than interested in knowing what you think are the limits of what a master mentalist can do.
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What happens with "magician's miracle" is that there is also a random chance that a magician can guess something once.
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I agree. But it seems pretty unlikely in certain kind of tricks.