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Derren Brown - Predicting the lottery before the numbers come out tommorow


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My guess is that the lottery result isn't actually LIVE, but slightly delayed by 30 seconds or so. There's a lot you can do with a morse code buzzer in the sole of your shoe if you have a partner watching the really LIVE feed. If you have a piece of paper locked away with the so called results, a last minute switch is childs-play for a competent magician.

 

I'll be interested to watch, but perhaps not Live.

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Good theory. As are with all of his tricks, they are just elaborate hoaxs or mind tricks, he will freely admit (probably) to not guessing the results through at paranormal method, but whether he admits exactly what method he used will be interesting... one things for sure, ever member of the audience for the draw will be pretty heavily frisked!

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I've no idea where he is in relation to the program either, so I'm just guessing.

 

One cruel trick I thought of once was to record the lottery programme, buy a ticket next week with the same numbers and then replay the programme at the exact time the follwing week at someone's house who doesn't normally watch it. Leave lottery ticket on table in plain view, and walk out of room and go do something else. Then see how the evening unfolds . . . . . ;)

Never actually done this. Bit too wicked really.

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Not sure how he is going to pull this off by attempting to acurately predict the draw, most other shows I've seen of his have involved the glaringly obvious put off by distraction or the power of suggestion.

Depending if he gets it right or wrong will make the after show of how he did or didn't get it right more Intriguing.

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its just a magic trick. he is just a magician, claiming to be a mind reader, like lots of magicians throughout the centuries.

 

they have been doing this trick for centuries too. i remember a very famous trick with a magician who used to predict newspaper headlines three weeks in advance, then put his prediction in a locked box. it was simple but effective.

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he is a magician, he doesn't predict anything.

But what he can do, is somehow put the actual lottery numbers into an 'apparently' sealed envelope using sleight of hand while making it appear the numbers have been in there all along.

 

and that's magic.

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I know a joke about a Magician....

 

 

Paul Daniels was doing a libe show years ago, when at the end of the show he turned to the audience and said "im tired of me doing magic for you, does anyone have a magic trick they want to show me"......after a brief pause a show of hands was soon evident from the audience...Paul picked one lucky 20 something guy...

Down this guy come and after the formalities of introdcing him to the crowd, Paul offered the lucky guy any assistance he or his staff could give...the guy said "well, actually Paul, I would like the help of your lovely wife. Ms Debbie McGhee..I need ger to on her back on this table"...and sure enough, Debbie McGhee did just that...

To the horror of the audience and more so Paul Daniels, the guy from the audience quickly tied Debbie at the wrist and ankles, stripped her naked and began to have sex with her.......

A distraght Paul Daniels shouted "what the **** are you doing? this is not an illusion!!!!".....

the Guy replied..."I know Paul but its farking Magic"....

 

 

I'll get my coat

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he is a magician, he doesn't predict anything.

But what he can do, is somehow put the actual lottery numbers into an 'apparently' sealed envelope using sleight of hand while making it appear the numbers have been in there all along.

 

and that's magic.

 

But theres 14 million possible combinations or something along that line, so it would be hard to do that in time.

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This is how I would do it:

 

Some slight of hand involved.

 

49 cards.

 

- Just before the first ball is dropped, he will put a card down FACE DOWN.

- The national lottery ball in the draw will come down(example): 3

 

- He will then put down what the "second number" will be, FACE DOWN

- The national lottery ball will come up (example): 6

 

This will be repeated with him putting down the third, fourth, fifth and sixth card just before each ball comes up.

 

Whether the bonus is involved or not, we will leave out for now.

 

So you have the draw (example)

3-6-9-12-15-18

 

You have six cards in front, ALL FACE DOWN.

 

He will group them together and pass them to a volunteer.

They will come up 3-6-9-12-15-18

 

HOW IT IS DONE:

 

Before the first number is drawn, he puts down a "dummy card". BLANK, for example.

They announce "3"

He then stares at his cards as if trying to predict the 2nd number and puts down a card.

Infact, he has put down the first number drawn - 3.

 

He repeats this so his cards are

BLANK - 3-6-9-12-15.

 

The trick is that as he gathers up the cards and passes them to a volunteer, he exchanges the BLANK with the last number drawn, 18.

 

The volunteer now has

3-6-9-12-15-18

in their hand which they turn over and reveal in order.

 

simples ;)

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at the risk of being thrown out of the magic circle, here's one to look out for.

 

If you break the tip off of a pencil and stick it under your thumbnail, you can clandestinely write someone's response to a question on a piece of paper. As Selwyn would have said, "Magic"

 

 

Does that make sense?

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This is how I would do it:

 

Some slight of hand involved.

 

49 cards.

 

- Just before the first ball is dropped, he will put a card down FACE DOWN.

- The national lottery ball in the draw will come down(example): 3

 

- He will then put down what the "second number" will be, FACE DOWN

- The national lottery ball will come up (example): 6

 

This will be repeated with him putting down the third, fourth, fifth and sixth card just before each ball comes up.

 

Whether the bonus is involved or not, we will leave out for now.

 

So you have the draw (example)

3-6-9-12-15-18

 

You have six cards in front, ALL FACE DOWN.

 

He will group them together and pass them to a volunteer.

They will come up 3-6-9-12-15-18

 

HOW IT IS DONE:

 

Before the first number is drawn, he puts down a "dummy card". BLANK, for example.

They announce "3"

He then stares at his cards as if trying to predict the 2nd number and puts down a card.

Infact, he has put down the first number drawn - 3.

 

He repeats this so his cards are

BLANK - 3-6-9-12-15.

 

The trick is that as he gathers up the cards and passes them to a volunteer, he exchanges the BLANK with the last number drawn, 18.

 

The volunteer now has

3-6-9-12-15-18

in their hand which they turn over and reveal in order.

 

simples ;)

 

This is a variation on a common 'mind reading' feat, whereby the voluteer answers a series of questions ie. Favourte colour, first car etc. Writing the first answer on the secong piece of paper etc etc, easy to do, but a bit more hard to get your head around (for non magic people).

 

I love knowing how magic is done.

 

BTW I bet tonights trick is much more elaborate than your revealation, I will watch with interest whilst running a bath.

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led's in each ball, light up the relevant ones as each ball came out? Although think the numbers may have been written on,..? Im baffled. Wud have been more believable if he had shown us his numbers first. It was mental though

 

It will not be something that simple, as they have dedicated a whole show to the explanation on friday.

I bet £20 that it is a mathematical equation.

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led's in each ball, light up the relevant ones as each ball came out? Although think the numbers may have been written on,..? Im baffled. Wud have been more believable if he had shown us his numbers first. It was mental though

 

Yeah, but that would have involved actually predicting the lottery which is approximately a one-in-fourteen-million-chance.

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Were the numbers on the balls before the draw was made? I doubt it.

 

So how to get the numbers on the balls? Photoactive paint and an extremely quick lazer burst?

 

I notice he wrote the numbers down on a pad (pressure sensitive with character recognition?) before he showed us the balls.

 

It'll be a clever use of technology for sure. Modern day smoke and mirrors.

 

I much prefer his cold reading and influencing of people tricks really. They are just un-nerving.

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