The real-life Mentalist ..
By JESS MCALLEN for Stuff.co.nz
Think of a wild animal, a colour and a number.
If your answers were lion, red and seven then, according to mentalist Timon Krause, you are in the majority and pretty easy to read.
It’s one of many techniques he uses to read minds, these simple questions can show what kind of person someone is and predict their response to future questions.
“You’re a different kind of thinker,” he tells me when I say elephant, maroon and eight.
Little does he know (or does he?) that earlier our videographer had tested me, telling me not to say seven because that’s the number everyone would say.
We also settled on the less-known colour of maroon if I was asked to think of a hue (sorry Timon).
But the 20-year-old Dutch Champion of Mentalism had us stumped when he correctly guessed my four digit number (8140), my little sister’s name (Amy), and, even more spectacularly, was able to melt my 20 cent coin – on camera.
So how does he do it?….