Are mentalists fake?

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Lior Suchard. Is one of those mentalists that does really impossible things like predicting what word people will choose from the newspaper by writing it on a paper beforehand. How the f does he do it? He can't pay every news cast and celebs to fake the act.

Sandi Toksvig did this trick on QI then went on to explain the history of the trick, (but not how to do it). I cant seem to find the clip.


But the answer is this is a magicians trick, a clever one that I have no idea how its done, but a trick none the less.