Derren Brown to predict national lottery numbers

[jackass]

He used the same method he did last year if you saw his programme where he was at the races. He's spent a year of his life looking at every single lotto draw and seeing the probability of the numbers, then making a formula - essentially it was those numbers' turn tonight. Hard to explain but he did it last year.

Every number has an equal probability, and no number whatsoever can affect any other number showing up.

And the horses thing was just the trick of 'what was shown' - he only showed on TV the woman that DID get them all right.

[Misawa]

Every number has an equal probability, and no number whatsoever can affect any other number showing up.

And the horses thing was just the trick of 'what was shown' - he only showed on TV the woman that DID get them all right.

He explained how he did it, you must have missed that.

[Stephen!]

He used the same method he did last year if you saw his programme where he was at the races. He's spent a year of his life looking at every single lotto draw and seeing the probability of the numbers, then making a formula - essentially it was those numbers' turn tonight. Hard to explain but he did it last year.

So, basically, he created the formula for winning the lottery?

[AlexOC]

I need to make friends with him

[Misawa]

So, basically, he created the formula for winning the lottery?

If it's the same as his racecourse programme, which it looks like it is, he uses maths to work out a formula based on probability using all the past results. There's more to it, but it's complicated.

[AlexOC]

How?

There's the same chance that the exact same numbers show up back to back, then different sets of numbers.

[Jack.Lfc]

Oh come on, there was a reason for there being no audience. The camera angle was limited, numbers could have been beamed onto them white balls like projected.

[Pyroka]

uhhmmm... It'll be something so obscure and not even related to what people think, which will be what it is. It's like the seance thing, everyone thought it was real or some people think people were moving things, but they thought in the end it was actually real, then he told them it was ALL FAKE.

He's just like that, I wouldnt be surprised if they faked the lottery.... It's crazy.

Above post has the right idea, it'll be something so simple that does it. The fact he didnt reveal them BEFORE the lottery just shows that. He said that it was an illegal thing BBC do which means they cant show the balls until after the draw. I'm sure I heard him say that. There will be something more to it... Lotto doesn't let people tickets 5 minutes before the lottery is drawn so it wouldnt have mattered. Theres no way lotto can sue him for predicting the numbers, its like sueing people for guessing the numbers and getting them right.

Theres definetely more to it than meets the eye, you really have to look OUTSIDE of the box. The clues will be in the programme.

[Jack.Lfc]

Do you seriously believe he would be on channel 4 if he coiuld predict lottery numbers?

[jackass]

He explained how he did it, you must have missed that.

No, when he explained how he did it, was how I said.