Derren Brown to predict national lottery numbers

[N!ck]

It was probably a trick with the camera. There is no winning formula/system for the lottery.

Previous numbers/results have absolutely no effect on future results. The machine is an inanimate object and does not know or care what past results are. Every ball has an equally random chance of coming out.

[Kardan]

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.

There was no formula at all to the racehorse thing. He simply got 7,000 people and told them to back 1 of 6 horses. The ~1,500 people that backed the next horse would then get told to back another 1 of 6 horses - this kept happening, and people were told to film themselves until there were 6 people left, then camera crews went round and they just shown the person that got all the bets right. There was no formula, each person just had a different combination of winning horses.

This, there is no formula to this. Basically, they got the winning numbers on the balls between the start and the end of the program somehow. Why do you think they didn't do the bonus? So they had more time to get the correct numbers on the balls

[ItsDave]

I dunno, it was pretty amazing tbh. Well he's gonna tell us on Friday.

[Black_Apalachi]

There was no formula at all to the racehorse thing. He simply got 7,000 people and told them to back 1 of 6 horses. The ~1,500 people that backed the next horse would then get told to back another 1 of 6 horses - this kept happening, and people were told to film themselves until there were 6 people left, then camera crews went round and they just shown the person that got all the bets right. There was no formula, each person just had a different combination of winning horses. [...]

Well explained. It was such an anti-climax as well.

[Tintinnabulate]

The bit about "Oh no we really did forget what happened in there ..." was so obviously a lie, as they laughed when they saw Shepherds Bush outside. If they forgot the show, they would have forgotten that too ...

[kre8ive]

He's amazing, I was totally freaked out, did anyone catch the Derren Brown program afterwards? Pretty good too.

[Tintinnabulate]

He's amazing, I was totally freaked out, did anyone catch the Derren Brown program afterwards? Pretty good too.

In that show everyone pretended to have forgotten the show afterwards, yet when they walked outside they remembered Shepherds Bush? :rolleyes:

Yeah I think you're right there Brandon, because the image was very shaky which would explain why one side wasn't moving yet the other side was, the picture was getting wider.

I think ya deffo right.

It was shaky even after he showed us the numbers ...
I think he kept moving the camera to tell people "look we aren't using a split screen as its harder to do that when the camera man keeps zooming in and keeps moving, but its very very easy to do it when the camera is in the same place".

So I think if the camera didn't move at all, then people would still think it was a still footage, but by keep moving it, its very very hard.

[Black_Apalachi]

The bit about "Oh no we really did forget what happened in there ..." was so obviously a lie, as they laughed when they saw Shepherds Bush outside. If they forgot the show, they would have forgotten that too ...

Some remembered bits and it was mainly the end they remembered. Others didn't forget at all. He pulled the map off at the end to reveal a huge Shepard's Bush banner so there's more chance of remembering this as well as the sign outside acting as a retrieval queue.

Besides, he probably controlled what they would forget and what they would remember.

[JACKTARD]

it was rly good,

did anyone see his show on E4 before that?

[Richie]

I'm sorry but I just don't believe it, Firstly if you were watching it his facial expression was all an act. He was trying to act shocked when the numbers came out, but you could see right through it. This was not a prediction in my eyes. What i think was done was as the numbers were being called out the numbers on the balls were being change, I would believe it if he showed us the numbers he predicted it to be first then showed the acctual lottery, he said they couldn't for legal reasons. Perhaps I'm just being negative because in my mind I think its impossible.