How do fortune tellers tell fortunes somewhat accurately?

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I’ve heard people get their fortunes told correctly and I never believed it, until my mother had her fortune told and they gave her an uncanny amount of info about me that eventually came true.

Obviously I don’t believe in this. There must be some tricks behind it all to at least get one or two things correct. How does it work?

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Broad enough statements can easily be pattern-matched to truth, and with enough guesses, you’ll eventually land on one. You might start with the practice of [cold reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading) as a baseline.

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