Merged Derren Brown - predicting lottery numbers

Well I was impressed :) Now if I could do that two or three weeks running ... I clapped it was a cool trick
 
Just to clear one thing up... the footage he was showing of the draw, was exactly what was being shown on bbc1, at near enough exactly the same time. I was sad enough to check..
 
You're not the only one sad enough to check, I had one on my PC (BBC) and C4 on the telly
 
666 said:
Possible explanation: Photosensitive coating on the balls? Project the numbers as soon as they're announced then turn the stand round?
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That would be a lame way of doing it... not mentalism at all.
 
dbalsdon said:
Just to clear one thing up... the footage he was showing of the draw, was exactly what was being shown on bbc1, at near enough exactly the same time. I was sad enough to check..
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Darn it that rules out a lot. It would take some nerve to do the trick by ********ting the numbers are hoping nobody checks.

Does anybody know how long the delay is between an event in a live TV studio and that event making it onto our screens as "live"?
 
That would be a lame way of doing it... not mentalism at all.
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Thats pretty much the only way he could've done it... I don't see why it will take him a whole hour to explain that though. Maybe a little bit more too it.

salerio said:
Derren's website has crashed - well done JREF
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And well done to his 30k + twitter followers.
 
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Does anybody know how long the delay is between an event in a live TV studio and that event making it onto our screens as "live"?
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Not too sure to be honest, but any delay the bbc would have, would be the same as what channel 4 had..
 
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Wikipedia:
"There is usually a 75-90 second delay between what is actually being filmed and what is being broadcast; this is to allow time for editing and censoring."

Hmmm. If we are 90 seconds delayed from his feed that might be enough time.
 
It was a very rushed broadcast. How long was there between the program starting and the end of the draw. It couldn't have been much more than 90 seconds.
 
Key word in that first sentence, was 'usually'. With the lottery, it doesn't apply.. Might be mistaken, but I believe they have to, legally, show the draw without any form of delay.

ETA: And the National Lottery program started at the same time as the Derren brown program started. They had to do the thunderball draw, and show the dream number draw first. Derren started showing the footage just after the dream number draw finished.
 
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dbalsdon said:
Key word in that first sentence, was 'usually'. With the lottery, it doesn't apply.. Might be mistaken, but I believe they have to, legally, show the draw without any form of delay.
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If so, we're fast running out of options for how the trick could be done.
 
shuttlt said:
Wikipedia:
"There is usually a 75-90 second delay between what is actually being filmed and what is being broadcast; this is to allow time for editing and censoring."

Hmmm. If we are 90 seconds delayed from his feed that might be enough time.
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He had the balls in view for longer than 90 seconds (at least a few minutes) so it doesn't seem that that was the method.

I think 666s suggestion is most likely.

None of the balls moved at all, and judging by when he touched them they were loose and light, like ping pong balls.
 
Also, if the lottery is subject to the 90 second delay then surely so would Derren's show be.

But what he was showing on screen matched almost exactly what was coming from the BBC.
 
yeah. I'd agree with 666's explanation. Seems the most likely. Derren was stood right behind the stand when he turned them round, concealing anything behind him that could've been used to 'etch' the numbers on the balls.
 
Ashles said:
He had the balls in view for longer than 90 seconds (at least a few minutes) so it doesn't seem that that was the method.

I think 666s suggestion is most likely.

None of the balls moved at all, and judging by when he touched them they were loose and light, like ping pong balls.
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The only thing I have against that as a solution is that it's inelegant. He certainly could have done it that way, I'll just be disappointed is all.
 
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