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Re: Derren Brown Predicting Lottery Numbers Live on TV
I joined in an experiment on another forum I use, 70-odd people posted their numbers and the OP worked out the numbers we should use using Browns method. The draw was last night and we got one poxy number. Luckily I had the foresight to buy a lucky dip as well, and I got me 3 numbers and a tenner 
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Re: Derren Brown Predicting Lottery Numbers Live on TV
The wisdom of crowds thing is bullshit he said at the beginning this show is all about mis-direction. It was just a plain camera trick probably. He didn't really predict it. The only other way would be if he had fixed the lottery.
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Re: Derren Brown Predicting Lottery Numbers Live on TV
I love they had to get a mathmetician to explain the obvious there. Browns explanation on the wisdom of crowds is true, it's a known theory but it can't be applied in this case as the lottery is too much of a random process to make it guessable whether a crowd's involved or not makes no difference.
Derren Brown has said time and time and time again he has no psychic ability (not that that's of any use with an inanimate lottery machine anyway). He is a magician, a hypnotist and an illusionist, and a damn good one. I saw him live earlier this year and he's excellent (watch some of his live shows on the C4 website and you'll see what I mean). Still not sure how he did the lottery thing though probably some camera trick or other but knowing that would ruin it. Just a thought but how extraordinary is it that he just predicted the lottery, when you think about it at least one person does it every week.
Re: Derren Brown Predicting Lottery Numbers Live on TV
Just a thought but how extraordinary is it that he just predicted the lottery, when you think about it at least one person does it every week.
Unless there's a rollover 
Also m22, He claims to have wrote the numbers before and then revealed them before the draw.
