Mentalist Reads News Anchor's Mind Live On Air

A mentalist demonstrates mind reading techniques on an i24NEWS host, using dice, envelopes, and drawing to predict choices. He explains the role of body language, facial expressions, and probability in creating the illusion, revealing how common patterns influence decisions.

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Let's say uh are you right-handed or left-handed, by the way? Right-handed. So, I brought here a uh little dice, right? So, okay. You could uh make sure you could roll it a few times. Make sure it's a normal regular dice. Amazing. What I want you to do now is you're going to put it in the cup. Like roll it or just drop it. You could drop it, whatever you want. And I want you to roll it and do it multiple times until you're happy with one of the numbers. So, look at the number. Uhoh. What does that mean? Uhoh. Yeah. So once you have it inh. Okay. So put your hand on top of it. It's going to you could do this and just mix it and then look at the number.

Okay. If you're happy with the number, we could stick to that. If you want to change your mind, you could go with a totally different number. You happy with it? Amazing. So you could put it on the side so I can't really see it. It's on the other side. [snorts] Um and it has some envelopes. Do you mind shuffling them? Shuffling them around like mix them. I love shuffling cards and doing the whole bridge. And my grandpa taught me that. Amazing. It's like we all have the grand like a trick on us. Of course. So, for example, um so you mix the dice, you have a number, and you mix the envelopes. And uh you said you're right-handed, right? So, I'm just going to spread these out here. I'm going to

do it just face up like this. And I'm going to mark the envelopes with like one, two, three, four, five, and lastly, six. And uh I'm just going to put them straight out here. One, two, three, four, five, six. So we have some envelopes right over here. Now I want to create a little uh imagination. So I want you to uh you could close your eyes if you need to and imagine any place in the world. So it could be uh a country, it could be a city, it could be anywhere, but a place you've been to in the past. Now this is the first time I'm asking you to think of this. I didn't ask before the show. I didn't ask you anything.

No cheating. They saw you're literally thinking of a name of a place and um I want you to imagine you're walking in the street. Could you tell us where is that place? What's the location? Oh, say it out loud what it is. Yes. Uh Colorado ski town. In Colorado ski town, you're walking. Yeah. And then you see a big triangle. Yeah. I want you to imagine that triangle. Yeah. Like in the air. Suddenly you see inside an image. That image immediately pops into your mind. you have an image in So, I want you to think of that image

and uh I'm going to create this. We're going to make this uh real. So, I'm going to draw like a big uh triangle right over here. Just like that. You must be good at Pictionary, too, a little bit. But, um I'm going to give you the marker and I want you to draw inside the triangle your imagine drawing your whatever it is. I'm going to look away. I can also see. It's fine. But, uh Okay. So, you have Okay. Amazing. And uh you could hold it close to you. Hold it. Hold like this. As long as you don't uh this look like President Trump's pen, his big markers. Before you show us

what you just uh put over there. Um you roll the dice, right? And then you shuffle the envelopes. You wrote the numbers. So there is so many options and then you drop the many times, right? It's crazy. Um so we'll start with the number. What's you decide to go with? Say it out loud. Yes. One. Number one. Okay. So, number one, I'm going to push forward just like that. And uh I'm going to do this. I'll show you what's crazy cuz number two, I could uh tear it. You could see there's uh nothing inside, right? We have number three. There's also uh nothing inside. Okay. Number four. Not that impressive. All of them, they have nothing inside. But look at this.

I'm just going to show you just to prove you that it's empty, empty, empty. And uh and then you went with the drawing. Something that popped into your mind. Yes. And that you went with number one as well. Could you uh show us all what's the drawing you decided to go? A heart. A heart in a triangle with the number one in a random place in the world. I'll tell this is crazy. Uh oh my gosh. I look inside. We have a uh a piece of paper. You could literally on anything in the world. I go Oh my gosh. Could you hold it up? Hold it up. Let's uh All right. This guy is no joke. Wow.

There you go. Was that I had a poker face. Well, that's what everyone thinks. Everyone thinks they have a poker face. It wasn't about the one that gave it away. Like I didn't seem too excited by it. So, it's not necessarily about the one. It's about you being happy with number one. There's probability of you being h happy with a certain number. Like it's a what they say uh I use a lot of like body language, facial expression, and a lot of patterns. So certain people would be more likely to go with certain numbers and certain things. So let's say you would see number three, you probably wouldn't uh be as happy at number one. Once you saw number one, you were like, "Okay, that's my number." So it's usually a one or six or because

people like don't like different people have different things in the middle. So we this is so cool. Do you ever get it wrong? It happens, but I'm really good at covering it. There you go. I learn to cover to get around. You know, it happened on stages.

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