The Tao of Gaming

Yes, I appreciated it greatly. Most impressive is your limited interaction with the subject of your mind reading (in significant contrast to the Medici* example). Its hard to imagine how you felt confident enough to not only predict the answer, but to have the certainty to announce it. Of course, it might be even more impressive if we knew what the heck the answer was!

* In the legendary Medici mind-reading demonstration we were playing a 4 person game and Brian was to my right. For some reason there was a calculator on the table, and about halfway through the game, Brian picked it up.it. At the time I was agonizing over a bid (this was a tight game with good players, so lots of close out bids were being made, and I'd only played once or twice before) when Brian set the calculator down in front of me, upside down, and told me to look at it after I bid. IIRC correctly I bid 13 (jumping from 6), and sure enough, the calculator said 13. Brian then proceeded to forecast my meaningful bids for the rest of the game. He hit at least the next two dead on (maybe three), and didn't miss by more than one for the rest of the game. So not only did he have to evaluate my position the same way as I did, but he also had to understand how I would evaluate the other players responses to my bid. It was quite astonishing, and a little bit freaky.