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Derren: I’ll predict Lotto numbers during show.


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MIND reader Derren Brown is to perform his most audacious stunt yet - predicting the lottery results.

The Channel 4 star plans to forecast the Wednesday night draw as it is screened live on BBC1.

And the bearded illusionist will rattle lotto chiefs by telling viewers HOW to do it. Sadly, Derren will be filmed at a secret location as he predicts the balls tumbling out of the National Lottery machine - when it's too late for us to buy a ticket.

Derren, 38, is so confident of success he has convinced C4 chiefs to screen the stunt live across all its channels including FilmFour and More4.

They have also given him another show on Friday night where he will give hints on how its done. A show insider said: "Derren is extremely confident he has worked out how to predict those magic balls.

"Of course the thing with this is not just the excitement of him doing it - but the fact he'll tell people how to do it.

"Magicians famously never give up their secrets and are frowned upon if they do. And the lotto bosses won't be happy if he really has found the secret to predicting the National Lottery." The stunt is one of four "events" Derren has lined up. Some are so secret even senior execs at Channel 4 don't know what they are.

Next week's show How to Control The Nation could see thousands of viewers unable to get up from their seats after watching a special film. Derren recently said: "A piece of media which will be played to the viewing nation will have the effect of rendering them immobile. Not all of them, but it will basically stick a lot of people to their seats. It's safe."

Derren once played a game of Russian Roulette live and also convinced a member of the public to rob a security van.

But the new show could be a trick - just like Séance filmed in 2004 which implied it was being shown live.

Derren revealed at the end of the programme that the séance had been a set up. Let's hope Derren's remembered to buy a lotto ticket before Wednesday's show at 10.35pm.

How exciting!

However I just can't see how this will be real, there must be something not quite right, but if he revels how he does it then we will have to wait and see. :shock:

EDIT: The show on Friday where he 'explains' has this description.

New series. The illusionist explains how he produced the act of misdirection designed to trick, fool and control participants that was broadcast live on Wednesday evening

So it will be a trick somehow, but of course, the lottery is impossible to predict.

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Amusing stunt, especially when a lot of people (amazingly) really do bank on the possibility of a big lottery win getting them out of the financial hole they find themselves in, having been encouraged to spend beyond their means from all corners.

Possibly a bit unfair though, as it's been called 'stupid tax' for a reason...

I'll look forward to catching up on this.

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i think i know it bit complicated but i reckon hes come up with a system that uses how many times the different balls have appeared cus they say on lottery number 4 and they say that the 6th time that came up this year and he must of worked a strategy that gives him the most probable numbers

or he has a time machine

or hes just god

1 of those 3 lol

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i think i know it bit complicated but i reckon hes come up with a system that uses how many times the different balls have appeared cus they say on lottery number 4 and they say that the 6th time that came up this year and he must of worked a strategy that gives him the most probable numbers

or he has a time machine

or hes just god

1 of those 3 lol

There's no 'strategy'. It's irrelevant how many times a ball has come out before - it's still an utterly random draw on the day where any number is as probable as another.

Interested to see what the trick was. I find it hard to believe it was anything as simple as camera trickery - on that basis anyone could have stood there and pretended to predict the lottery. Derren is an illusionist with a reputation to keep in tact - it must be more complex than that.

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I have read that the numbers could have been printed from the inside of the balls, but this seems like, people just trying to think of any possible way he did this.

Oh, and he has been very sneeky with his adverts.

why do people pout crap annoying music to vids :rolleyes:

just because the adverts had numbers in them doesn't make any difference, even if some people had been conditioned, it makes no difference to the numbers that the machince let out, ok there maybe some clues in the adverts.

as for the green screen or LED's on the balls, Derren doesn't do things like that, because if it could be done like that, why has nobody done it before ?

its going to be either very simple or a weird random way.

:)

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