http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/sep/09/derren-brown-lottery-paul-daniels Just happened and he got the right numbers. I wonder how it was done but apparently there are 99 ways of doing it. Now im guessing its obvious he dint predict them otherwise there would be a few more millionaires but it was an interesting trick.
Apparently, it's looking like a split-screen job. There's a couple of things in the programme that don't quite add up, hopefully a good quality hd capture appears online soon. Whatever the trick was behind it, it was fun to watch and i'm looking forward to friday's show.
What a load of horse droppings, he is not allowed to buy a ticket, is that because it's a trick and he won't win anything as it's a random event and he is using a trick. I'd be impressed if he did have a winning ticket, gave it to a lawyer and then donated the winnings to charity... but he won't so he can't...
Well yes its obvious he hasn't got one. A couple of fishy things i picked up when i saw the show. Firstly the i cant buy a ticket excuse apparently channel 4 stopped him from doing so. Thats total bullshit so that he cant say look here i got my ticket with those numbers. The most important one though is his excuse for not showing us his numbers first. Something like "the BBC have exclusivity to show the lottery numbers first. So i cant show you mine till the draw". Sorry but 6 ping pong balls with few numbers on them even if he had the right numbers isn't exactly broadcasting the lottery results before the BBC.
A swift check on eBay will determine just how many 'products', 'tips' and 'methods' are being sold or auctioned that allegedly predict the outcome of various lotteries and gambling situations. They are all hilarious in that they claim to be selling one of a particular item, then guaranteeing that they'll A) not use it and B) will destroy the 'only one of it's kind!' So... 1) You have a winning formula to predict the outcome of the lottery. So to be so confident you must have tried it out to see whether it worked right? Or are you telling me that you just sat on your sofa for several weeks, successfully predicting the lottery numbers and never once going for it? So, let's assume it's tried and tested, what sort of person having discovered the formula would A) risk losing their winnings by telling the World it was achieved through fraud B) needs a few quid extra from eBay having won millions? Okay, assume it's NOT tried, but tested. What kind of moron then sells the idea and lets someone else win millions? 2) If a method did somehow successfully predict the lottery then the fact it could have purely been coincidental surely must cross the persons mind? So, they would test it again to see... outcome, potentially the greatest single winning formula in history, and you can see why you'd find out about it in a cheap as chips BIN auction on eBay and not a Hollywood film, or the trial of the century. 3) If a particular lottery was ever 'broken', then the system would be overhauled, as they are on a regular basis. It's not just one machine, one system, it's a whole host to avoid any possible predictive pattern. I don't think anyone here believes that this is anything other than a good laugh, after all these predictive methods are being auctioned on eBay in the Fantasy/Myth/Magic section and that pretty much says all you need to know about it! I love a good slight of hand that makes you momentarily suspend belief in a WTF way, but I hate to know how the trick was done because frankly I prefer to feel that someone managed to pull the wool over my eyes. P.S. On another note, I hate Git Wizard David Blaine. Just had to get that in!
Just downloaded and watched, my bet is on split screen too, there definitely seems to be some artificial camera movement then BAM, it's perfectly still just before he walks over to the ping pong balls. Love to be proven wrong though and have my mind blown.
Here's a screengrab of 2 frames where something strange happens. Watch the ball on the left. http://i28.tinypic.com/ehmzvp.gif As someone who watches way too much tv, I noticed the camera movement looked simulated.
you remember this? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2428437236878343763# I saw the thing last night, I'll watch on Friday too. I'll be interested to see if he really does say how it was done, he could just waffle a bit.
That is absolutely stunning and I defy anyone to experience the same thing and not become unhinged like that dude when he realised he could shoot the gun! lol :rambo:
Bunch of bull. He got 24 people in a room to come up with some numbers while in some half baked relaxed state (i forget the term he used) and then averaged them out and came up with each balls number. He did have another trick about coin tosses that involved deep maths or some crap. Now im not sure if it can really be explained by maths or if the idea was that a persons choice is biased in someway towards a pattern thats unlikely to happen hence changing it in the way he explains makes it more likely to happen.
yeah, the split screen method seems to be the 'real' way.. not that crock O' bull explanation he gave. http://poeljames.googlepages.com/HowDerrenDidIt.html
The explanation was a bit of a letdown. Hopefully he'll redeem himself next week. He's supposedly going to show a video packed with subliminal messages that'll make you wet your bed. Or something.
