Derren Brown Predicts The National Lottery!

[The Battousai]

I want to see him win James Randi's challenge. Then I will believe this.

Fixed and seconded

 

[Kahoot]

What the hell is James Randi's challenge?

If he could predict the lottery he would not go on TV and show off this skill. He would win the ****ing lottery. Also he would easily get around "not being able to legally pay the lottery" or whatever ********tery he cooked up to make people believe that he can tell the future.

He doesn't need to win the lottery, he makes enough money as a celeb.

 

[The Battousai]

What the hell is James Randi's challenge?

The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) has a challenge for all people purporting to have supernatural/spiritual abilities to perform said skills under proper test conditions. Any who are able to pass the preliminary challenge (no one has yet) as well as the official test will recieve $1,000,000 from the JREF straightaway.

Challenge requirements

An example of a preliminary test being performed:

 

[Kahoot]

The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) has a challenge for all people purporting to have supernatural/spiritual abilities to perform said skills under proper test conditions. Any who are able to pass the preliminary challenge (no one has yet) as well as the official test will recieve $1,000,000 from the JREF straightaway.

Challenge requirements

But Derren Brown has said once that he can't read minds and has no supernatural/spiritual abilities, he can just read people's subconcise movements.

He'd probably do your challenge but he'd probably cheat and mind **** everyone watching.

Edit: I spelt subconcise wrong but even my spell checker aint helping so I hope you can sub in the right word better than it can.

 

[Kahoot]

Challenge requirements

An example of a preliminary test being performed:

Those were the most boring videos I have ever watched...

 

[Dr Lee]

It's a fake...... remember back when he did the roulette thing... with the 'random' person and the 'live' ammo in the gun?

 

[Majic Walrus]

What the hell is James Randi's challenge?



He doesn't need to win the lottery, he makes enough money as a celeb.

No one really needs money, but if you had the ability to win an extra 80 million pounds wouldn't you do it?

But Derren Brown has said once that he can't read minds and has no supernatural/spiritual abilities, he can just read people's subconcise movements.

He'd probably do your challenge but he'd probably cheat and mind **** everyone watching.

Edit: I spelt subconcise wrong but even my spell checker aint helping so I hope you can sub in the right word better than it can.

How can he read subconscious () movements to predict the lottery?

 

[chaseter]

Yeah...the lottery balls have no subconscious

 

[black_dust]

I found that quite interesting, now i need a large amount of people to give me 6 random numbers

 

[LexCorp]

Hmm theories.....

One popular suggestion is that there was a slight time delay in the BBC's broadcast of the lottery draw and someone had given Derren the numbers just ahead of the broadcast.

Others believe that the programme used a split screen effect which allowed someone to arrange the correct balls once the result had been announced.

Or, perhaps the balls were sitting on a special device which printed the numbers onto them as soon as they were revealed on the BBC show?

 

[Bastila]

Did anyone watch the show tonight on how he did it? I forgot it was on :P and forgot to Sky + it also...

 

[LexCorp]

Did anyone watch the show tonight on how he did it? I forgot it was on :P and forgot to Sky + it also...

??? No

Ahh blast I no longer have Sky wrong country

 

[black_dust]

Did anyone watch the show tonight on how he did it? I forgot it was on :P and forgot to Sky + it also...

Yeah he used a large group of people (24) to study the numbers from the year, then make a "guess" to what the next sequence of numbers would be, each persons guess at the first ball were all added up and they got say 898, then it was divided by 24 (number of people in the group) and you get 37 which would be the first ball out. then did the same with the other 5 balls.
Just a random probability formula

 

[LexCorp]

Yeah he used a large group of people (24) to study the numbers from the year, then make a "guess" to what the next sequence of numbers would be, each persons guess at the first ball were all added up and they got say 898, then it was divided by 24 (number of people in the group) and you get 37 which would be the first ball out. then did the same with the other 5 balls.
Just a random probability formula

Thats a very loose system to rely on....must have been more than that.

 

[black_dust]

Thats a very loose system to rely on....must have been more than that.

There was abit more too it but its hard to explain, but thats the gist of it

 

[Majic Walrus]

Yeah he used a large group of people (24) to study the numbers from the year, then make a "guess" to what the next sequence of numbers would be, each persons guess at the first ball were all added up and they got say 898, then it was divided by 24 (number of people in the group) and you get 37 which would be the first ball out. then did the same with the other 5 balls.
Just a random probability formula

A random probability formula.

 

[Van Petrol]

He also used automatic writing later in the 'random probability formula'.


Heh, conveniently they advertised the Euromillion Lottery rollover for next week during the show.

 

[psychocheeseman]

Derren brown's my hero - his live shows are the best - although "the heist" was pretty good too - he made ordinary people into armed robbers just for a laugh

 

[black_dust]

I want to see what this one next week is, making people stuck in their chairs so they cant get up by using a subliminal video

 

[Kahoot]

So no one believes he fixed it like he said he would never do but then gave a big detailed list of how he would've done it. I think he could've fixed it but it's not likely.

Also for all those that didn't see it and don't understand his method, The Wisdom of Crowds.

I want to see what this one next week is, making people stuck in their chairs so they cant get up by using a subliminal video

Perfect time to go round and rob someone, they can't get out of their chiar to stop you.

 

[LexCorp]

Cool the law of averages strikes!