Derren Brown...predicting the Lottery

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Ok...so what are all your theroies on this then?

Hows it done then?

My own therory is SPLIT SCREEN frozen video over the top of someone simply putting the correct balls up as they were called out....then the Freeze is replaced with Live video again on that half of the screen!! That would work but is it that simple an answer?

He never wrote the numbers down till they were all drawn either...not sure if that helps.

C'mon clever clogs actors....who knows?!!


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Hmmm...I think I am getting obessed!

http://www.lottery-guy.com/lgblog/derren-brown-reveals-secret-of-lottery-system-scams/

seeeee!!


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how can you explain the fact that Derren Brown has always outrightly claimed that ne is not a psychic nor a magician....he simply knows how to read people and is quick to work things out??
everything he does is trickery and he admits that.......


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A class act, to be sure - Mr Brown, I salute your wizardry, sir.


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You can't do a believable split screen on a handheld camera.


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Ummm...I know he's not psychic or magic!! There are some great mathematical formula's which are used to great success by mind readers....but he leads us to believe that group of 20-30 ish people worked out the winning numbers by the power of thought under his guidance!

Video trickery...course you can rig the screen.....I mean ask youself this...that wasn't very good camera work in a TV studio was it....very dodgy....no tripods available Derren?!!!

I am only impressed by magicians when they do a trick and you can't work out how on earth they did it.

David Blaine swears he doesn't use camera trickery......but he does...fact!

Brown claimed he read someone's mind in a game of Russian Roulette with a loaded hand gun.....but the Isle of Jersey has strict gun laws and didn't allow him to do the trick with a loaded gun...........so the trick was flawed from the off!

I'm always intrigued by good magicians and how they can mislead us and guide us to believe something that isn't..esp close up live tricks! ....but to go on national TV and pull off a stunt and have me believe it was the power of thought and or prediction is not impressive....when he could have easily shown us it was that by revealing the picked numbers prior to the draw! I don't think anyway!

Is he a great showman.....yes he is in a lot of what he does....but there are much better tricks which are really simple but stunningly clever!!

If he had ...just once.... shown us those numbers before the live draw....it would have been breath taking....but as he didn't...it was cobblers!!!!

The lad with the Cup and Knife....an assistant...or he'd have killed the mouse!!

The lady with the Mouse in 1 of 4 boxes....he may well have cleverly guided her....with the power of certain words and phrases....that was much cleverer than the lottery trick I thought!

Good link Luke!!!!


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Hmm...actually I think this is the best theory I've read:

http://jpoel.site90.com/HowDerrenDidIt.php


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Yup....that's as good a theory as it gets...especially the "pre-recorded" state of his clothes to the jump between the live footage and the difference in his clothes state!! I hadn't worked that one out…clever!

I knew that shaky camerawork was iffy though !!!

Good explanation and much more believable than Derren Brown claiming he can guide 30 people into working out 6 numbers at a 14million to one ratio perfectly in all in a row!!

Nice try Derren...10/10 for showmanship except your acting is a bit ropey and suspicious!! …but just 1/10 for stating to us there was no camera trickery!! Booooo!

I'm not sad or trying to be a killjoy, I just find this sort of thing fascinating….but c'mon Channel 4…there are much better and cleverer tricksters who don't lie and who don't rely on simple camera trickery!!

I once filmed a gig where a mind reader was performing….he got one lady (def not a plant either) to think about a her favourite pet's name……her best friend's middle name, and her first car model type…she wrote them down on a piece of paper….and at no time was he near her….and at no time did she reveal to anyone else what she had written down. He got all three predictions correct…except the pets name was slightly out…but just slightly.

Aftrewrads backstage he said to me…all I do is to make her think those words/names!! I then went and found the lady, and she was busy telling her mates how although she thought of those 3 words at the time and wrote them down, but on reflection, she realised they weren't true!!!! Spooky coz he was at least 50 foot from her throughout……now THAT is what I call clever!!


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ah well that link doesn't seem to work anymore but it was pretty convincing...


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It was spot on and proved his number crunching as a complete fake! I bet Chan 4/Derren Browns Legal team....or even Camelot got it removed!


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Let's face it - if he could predict the winning numbers he'd be a millionaire every lottery draw!


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