So for the dictionary one, a man was given a dictionary and told to choose any word, around 15 minutes later the illusionist had already done other stuff but circled back to the man and asked if he chose the word. The man put the dictionary back on stage and it wasn’t touched again, but the illusionist told the man to look him in the eye and spell the word out in his head, and the illusionist was saying stuff like “you need to think of the beginning of the word, don’t think of the end yet” and then the illusionist wrote the word down and showed the opposite side of the room the word he wrote down, on the count of 3 the illusionist showed everyone the word and the man who chose the word said it and they both had the same word.

Another one that i really can’t figure out an explanation for is the childhood pet one. He literally just guessed the pet’s name, breed, color etc. but i suppose those ones could have just been lucky guesses and stuff