derren brown predicts the lottery
!! reserve judgement on what??? If it's genuine? haha It's a trick man a trick! 
10 September 2009, 07:38 PM
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.Just sounds like the original con in the sting to me
.Besides - Is the National Lottery draw actually live ?
10 September 2009, 07:42 PM
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If everyone won the lottery you would only get half your stake back 
@hutton_d, another way of looking at the odds is that the first ball drawn can be any of the 6 you have selected and you're still in with a chance. So the calculation becomes 6/49*5/48*4/47*3/46*2/45*1/44 = 14m
@hutton_d, another way of looking at the odds is that the first ball drawn can be any of the 6 you have selected and you're still in with a chance. So the calculation becomes 6/49*5/48*4/47*3/46*2/45*1/44 = 14m
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10 September 2009, 07:51 PM
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He's done similar before with horse racing and flipping a coin. With the coin he said he could get 10 heads in a row - they filmed him flipping coins for (iirc) 6 hours until it eventually happened. With the horses, he said he would predict 6 winners in different races and got people to bet money as an acumilator(sp) When they explained at the end, there was thousands of people taking part and the only showed the one person out of over 7000 people in what is in effect a pyramid system.
He says he spent a year doing this so he could have spent a year filming all the possible winning combinations, although he did say he may only get 5 right - reducing drastically the amount of combinations which need to be recorded. Will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
He says he spent a year doing this so he could have spent a year filming all the possible winning combinations, although he did say he may only get 5 right - reducing drastically the amount of combinations which need to be recorded. Will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
10 September 2009, 09:34 PM
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10 September 2009, 09:44 PM
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He's done similar before with horse racing and flipping a coin. With the coin he said he could get 10 heads in a row - they filmed him flipping coins for (iirc) 6 hours until it eventually happened. With the horses, he said he would predict 6 winners in different races and got people to bet money as an acumilator(sp) When they explained at the end, there was thousands of people taking part and the only showed the one person out of over 7000 people in what is in effect a pyramid system.
He says he spent a year doing this so he could have spent a year filming all the possible winning combinations, although he did say he may only get 5 right - reducing drastically the amount of combinations which need to be recorded. Will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
He says he spent a year doing this so he could have spent a year filming all the possible winning combinations, although he did say he may only get 5 right - reducing drastically the amount of combinations which need to be recorded. Will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
If it's camera trickery like the last post i'll be very disappointed
11 September 2009, 04:56 AM
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I think this is the right explanation, but not necessarily what Derren will explain tonight.
YouTube - Derren Brown Lottery Prediction - REAL EXPLANATION EXPOSED - How did he do it? All revealed!!!!
The left-most ball definitely moves if you watch it closely.
I suspect Derren will claim he took a chance on cutting down the number of combinations from 14 million and then filmed many, many versions of the end bit. The "that's a year of my life" bit is just too theatrical.
The other alternative is some form of photo-sensitive coating on the ***** with ultra-violet projectors trained on each ball.
YouTube - Derren Brown Lottery Prediction - REAL EXPLANATION EXPOSED - How did he do it? All revealed!!!!
The left-most ball definitely moves if you watch it closely.
I suspect Derren will claim he took a chance on cutting down the number of combinations from 14 million and then filmed many, many versions of the end bit. The "that's a year of my life" bit is just too theatrical.
The other alternative is some form of photo-sensitive coating on the ***** with ultra-violet projectors trained on each ball.
11 September 2009, 06:17 AM
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11 September 2009, 08:07 AM
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Tiny ink-jet print-head per ball, and a small wheel to rotate them once printed.
Would take a few seconds from the results being announced to the number appearing on the ball - and by not doing the bonus ball there is a little more time for it all to complete!
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Would take a few seconds from the results being announced to the number appearing on the ball - and by not doing the bonus ball there is a little more time for it all to complete!
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11 September 2009, 01:34 PM
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I thought Brown had said previously that he never uses camera tricks. Stands to lose a lot of fans if that proves to be how this 'illusion' was done.
How about the ***** are made of thermal sensitive material with a little dot matrix heater inside each one. Then the image can be created without the ***** having to move.
How about the ***** are made of thermal sensitive material with a little dot matrix heater inside each one. Then the image can be created without the ***** having to move.
11 September 2009, 02:33 PM
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11 September 2009, 05:34 PM
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11 September 2009, 07:02 PM
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isnt it somthing simple like the camera is of what was filmed and frozen,i.e the ***** were a still frame and a guy was writing them down on the ***** then the frame unfrozen as he walks over to the ***** with the no.s written on
thats what id say
thats what id say
11 September 2009, 07:16 PM
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great couple of posts
11 September 2009, 09:43 PM
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That i think is correct because if you look at the bit where he`s writing the numbers down on the card, after he writes no 23 and untill 35 the shakey camera stays perfectly still.
