Derren Brown Predicts Lottery Correctly – 9th September 2009
October 19th, 2009 | by admin |andrewgeeuk asked:
Full 10 minute show of derren brown predicting the lottery. How did he do it?! Split screen?
Ron
25 Responses to “Derren Brown Predicts Lottery Correctly – 9th September 2009”
By CliveFromEngland on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
Roy
if you look at the way he writes the number 11 on the card he clearly writes 2 straight vertical lines.But when he turns the card round one of the digits has a line at the top of it. If he knew the numbers before hand why did he have to write thenm down after?He should have written them on the card before.Also,the number 39 ball is clearly not the same ball as in the first 6 balls,as it will not go down and lie flat with the rest of them. They were all level at the start of the con.
By CliveFromEngland on Oct 26, 2009 | Reply
Frederick
Just a thought…if he had shown the 6 numbers before the lottery and got them all right he could not have claimed to have picked them as the 24 people in the room picked them
By CliveFromEngland on Oct 27, 2009 | Reply
Francisco
It was noticed by many people that he did not actually show the 24 peoples’ chosen numbers to them beforehand.
By TacomaPaul on Oct 28, 2009 | Reply
Catherine
One of the oldest tricks ever…. a variation of “see nothing and now this”…
By Forestgravy on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply
Sandra
watche derrens right arm as the results are being read out, its like hes feelling around in his pocket deliberately shielded from view by his angle. His hands on his face to distract the attention so you notice that part instead. I still belive it was a camera trick but thats suspicious…
By BluHorizonProduction on Nov 1, 2009 | Reply
Lewis
It would have been a lot more believable if he had showed the balls first. Hasn’t anyone asked him why he didn’t….?
By richardwitter23 on Nov 3, 2009 | Reply
Tiffany
The panel of 24 people picked numbers based on previous lottery number combinations. So their choices were an attempted prediction of the new numbers based on how they both conciously and sub-conciously judged the likelyhood of those numbers appearing. There is certainly a difference to the cow example, but the prediction here would be based on a judgement of chance/probability, rather than on weight. I think its hard to say whether the philosophy is exactly the same, but maybe it is feasible.
By leonskie1 on Nov 6, 2009 | Reply
Christina
Part 1:
This is how he does it! It’s simply a split-camera technique. So just a camera trick in the end!
If you look closely on a big screen you will see that the six white balls throughout the first part of the broadcast are all in an even line and ironically there is a line of black bricks on the wall behind which acts like a ruler.
By leonskie1 on Nov 9, 2009 | Reply
Diana
Part 2:
Now after the last ball has been dropped if you look very carefully you can see that the ball on the left end has become slightly raised against the others and against the black bricks on the wall behind.
When Derren Brown turns the tray around you can clearly see that the ball on the end (now the right end) which is number 39 is slightly higher than the others as it has not been placed in the tray properly.
By leonskie1 on Nov 11, 2009 | Reply
Thelma
Part 3:
Therefore the balls at the end of the broadcast are NOT the same set as the ones at the start.
So split-camera effect (with artificial camera-shake) and a magician’s assistant (with NO studio audience present) are the solution.
The arrival at the prediction is therefore irrelevant as the balls have simply been swapped during the live show.
By leonskie1 on Nov 11, 2009 | Reply
Tyler
Part 4:
The apparent semi-success of the 24 members of the group predicting previous lotteries is another independent scam to give some sort of false explanation for the prediction.
So TWO scams together and the whole thing nothing more than a conjuring trick to mislead and misdirect people – and play on their greed and gullibility!
See notorious internet Animator Cyriak on the Charlotte Gore website to see how he did it. In fact, he demonstrated it working!
By andrewgeeuk on Nov 13, 2009 | Reply
Dawn
The camera shaking was probably done by a computerised-motorised tripod, and there was software that took the camera shake into account.
By andrewgeeuk on Nov 13, 2009 | Reply
Dale
Nah. He compared the prediction of a constant object (weight of cow) against a totally random thing. Not possible.
By KFATBOY1 on Nov 13, 2009 | Reply
Carla
look wat he did on friday, with all the people. im still not sure about it but its kind of on the lines of wat i said
By andywillkillyou on Nov 15, 2009 | Reply
Teresa
it couldn’t have been camera trickery, as it was live and the camera was shaking, as far as I know, you cant have a perfect alignment of a split screen with those factors
By lazare1976 on Nov 16, 2009 | Reply
Harry
Impressive camera trickery, well done.
By tonyreno123 on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Tanya
pity he couldnt predict them and let us know before the lottery closed
By heartz987 on Nov 20, 2009 | Reply
Delores
he is wow!!!!
By ljmarriott on Nov 20, 2009 | Reply
Jackie
It was just a trick at the end of the day, nothing to do with working out any numbers. SIMPLES. o.k
By Chom84 on Nov 22, 2009 | Reply
Melinda
If you ever watched the horse racing episode I think he did the same thing here, thats why it took him a year I think he met many groups of people until he convinced one they could win. Then on the wednesday he obviously wrote his own numbers down and did a bit of trickery to convince them they had won. Im guessing he will explain this in one of his next shows.
By connia on Nov 24, 2009 | Reply
Shannon
his name is derren, you’d know that if you were him.
By connia on Nov 27, 2009 | Reply
Sandra
omgggggg
By dstephenson28 on Nov 30, 2009 | Reply
Laurie
derren brown couldn’t play in the lottery because he and all his relations are banned from any form of gambling in the uk because of all the stunts he does like this… amazin tho what he did
By mrw4dd1e1995 on Dec 2, 2009 | Reply
Karen
I would just like to state the fact that this act was completely legit and was not faked. The reason why he did not enter these numbers into the lottery is purely because it is against the rules to. It is the same as counting cards at a casino when playing blackjack, it’s not illegal but the casino, or in this case the national lottery, will refuse to pay out the money. However, he does not care about this as mentioned in a comment before he is rich and does not need anymore money.
By andrewgeeuk on Dec 2, 2009 | Reply
Robin
I now dislike Derren Brown. After that hour show this evening. That was an hour of stuff that doesn’t relate to predicting the lottery. Were they actors, or was he fooling them? I reckon this evenings show may be important for a future “Event”.
I want my hour back