Derren Brown: The Events ‘How To Win The Lottery’ – broadcast
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Derren,
What have you done to the one second of “live feed” that went missing after the last ball was drawn ?
There was a little ‘hiccup’ glitch before the feed was turned instantly back to live again.
To the viewers, focus on Darren’s shadow on the white pad he was carrying .. wait till the last ball is dropped, focus and you can notice around less than a second’s worth of missing feed, which is enough time for an assistant to place the correct ball combination and the feed is back on live .. the whole process took less than second ..
Derren .. if this is the answer .. i request to be mentioned on your show on Friday .. 🙂
Eddie D.
@flapjack
Look at 6:06, and focus on the leftmost ball. It goes from being flat against the bottom of the rack, to slightly elevated. This is because there isn’t much horizontal room and the ball got squeezed up when hastily placing it. The ball jumps a good few millimetres, search youtube for a high def video of it. Whether or not he admits that this is how it was done remains to be seen, chances are he will come up with something much more impressive (but plausible enough for people to believe it).
Well, that was awesome telly! I also didn’t know you had taken over the whole of the channel 4 network, what next Pirate Brown! 🙂
Me and a mate sat there with two TV’s, one on channel 4 and one on BBC One (using the analog signal – just to be safe) and the delay was just less than one second. 😉
I’ve been watching it back, over and over, and the people that think it’s CGI tracking / Camera Tricks etc must be wrong, it can’t be that simple! If it was that simple then Friday’s show is going to drag on!
The site keeps going down for me, you must have caught a few peoples eyes! Well done! 😀
Taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-5qebwflA a short animation of two frames from the Derren Brown Lottery prediction. First frame is poorer quality from approx. 1.06 where Derren is introducing the event and all the balls are in a neat line. I have had to crop and zoom this more, and the angle is off to the side slightly, but I have lined this up with a frame from 5.51 where the left hand ball (the highest and last number, also nearer to the off camera edge of the screen) is noticeably higher. There is a fade between 5.37 and 5.43 where the left hand ball appears to rise up as the one image swaps for the other
From watching all of Derren Browns shows this one seems a bit obvious (stone me if I’m wrong)
I once saw a trick he did where he got heads or tails right so many times in a row.
How did he do it? By recording it over and over until he got that many right in a row.
Then there was the horse racing one, where he used a system where he had hundreds of people and just filmed the ones that he’d predicted right every time.
He said he’d spent a year on this,. which makes me think that no ‘e-ink’ or foolery was done with the balls.
This is simple editing. At 6.05 you see the ball on the left hand side rise slightly, this is a silly mistake not ensuring all the balls were flat when they recorded each of the possibilities for the draw.
His showmanship is second to none though, I still love him.
I have a few theories guys. Let me know what you guys think.
1) Derren has already proven that he has a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. So it is possible that he could have studied all the lotteries and made mental images, memorizing where the balls fall in the globe. Then he can calcualate angles, velocity, gravity to accurately predict which balls will actually fall out.. THe reason it had to happen on 9/9/09 is because the earths axis/rotation are probably perfectly aligned to make his prediction most accurate.
2) We have seen Derren manipulate via suggestion to other people. Well, I am sure it is possible for him to make suggestions to a machine = the lottery machine. Afterall, it is man made and therefore has lingering human energy which Derren can tap into and tell it which balls to spit out.
How do you know that camera trickery and cgi tracking are not Derren’s style, unless you know how all previous tricks have worked? So, the man tells us that he doesn’t use camera trickery… he also told us that the only reason he couldn’t reveal the numbers before the draw was because Camelot would not let him (rather than the fact that this would be impossible).
It was a BRILLIANT illusion, and the fact that it was live makes the camera trickery that much more impressive. The biggest mystery of all is to see how he pads all this out for an hour show on Friday…. will anything be revealed at all, or will it turn out to be an hour of side-tracking and diguise?
Looking forward to the rest of the series….
I dunno about you, but I don’t have e-ink balls and micro-printers lying around anywhere in my home-office – unless they’re so small I cannie see them – and I’m sure Mr Brown doesn’t expect that we’re all gadget-kings and will be able to replicate his prophecy via micro-technology. Unless he’s going to reveal a gaping gap in a corporate system which we can exploit on our humble laptops? And forget the camera magic for gawd’s sake. Behave. Yes, he is an illusionist, but he’s also damned good with numbers. Somehow I think his explanation will involve a few sums. Which will rule me out of ever being able to work it all out anyway!
Now with my theories in place i would like to add… IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT ALL THE NEGATIVE CRITICS SAY. I for one FEEL LUCKY TO BE ALIVE at the same time Derren walks this Earth. He is Brilliant beyond comprehension, a witty natural-born performer, amazing mentalist, and a downright genuine person. I have never met him or seen him live, but through all the you tube clips i have seen (and believe me i have seen every single one multiple times), it is very obvious that this man has a GOOD heart. It pisses me off that there are people who have to criticize and belittle a man of such genius that you could never even comprehend on what higher plane of intelligence he is functioning on. So please, just enjoy it and savor the moment…and feel gratitude that he is sharing his brain with us all.
The version of the illusion that he will show us how to perform at home on Friday will involve recording the lottery one week, buying a ticket for those numbers and then playing back the recording the following Saturday to trick one of your mates that the recording is in fact the “live” show. In other words, not the same illusion he pulled off last night at all.
Another thing I would like to add is that Derren Brown offers me inspiration and hope. He entertains me when I am bored in my room with nothing to do and barely even any friends. He is proof that our minds and brains are much more capable and have far greater potential than we know or understand. He is my idol in Life regarding all things intellectual and human. He will probably never know I exist in this world. I might not even ever get a chance to meet him, being that I live in USA, but it doesnt matter. If he ever reads this comment, he will know that there are people who truly appreciate the truth he exudes and the brilliance with which he exudes it. I love you Derren, not in a gross, sexual way.. but in a humanistic way… You have changed my life.. in ways I could never even explain.
Those are not balls … those are EGGS you have there in the stand .. and they float a bit weird in their little compartment .. I just happened to notice … Is it symbolic ..
I can see a few ways via technique and such to make it work … perhaps you can see way before it falls what ball will go in the tube … takes experience .. and the rest can be worked out as well from there on ..
How live is live .. and is what you (we) see really there to watch for what we are looking for ? … Is the stand with the egg balls really on that location ……hm …… ?
Oh well .. I have 10 x 1/5 lottery tickets for the drawing tonight .. we can ask for tickets with a specific last number .. ehehehe … if you take a street you at least get back part of the money …. garanteed …
I
Yep yep yep it was great, but what the flip were all the sites seen/heard/hinted at in the reverse advert (that led to Derren’s surescore site and finally the audiofile with the 5 ‘lottery numbers’ on) about then?
All red herrings?
Subliminal advertising?
I’ve just been compelled to go on Amazon and buy a Joe Navarro book, so if that was it, job done.
(apologies to anyone who hasn’t a clue what I’m on about. It’s just confusing me, the time and effort that went into the wild goose chase that was stucktomysofa.com, retsehcnamdetinu.com, forward-splash.com, snoitciderpserocsnerred.com, etc etc)
I’d like to believe this wasn’t camera trickery. I don’t think thats the kind of thing you would do. However one of those balls moved somewhat by itself, im sure. Oh well at least you’ll tell us tomorow. Unless thats all an “illusion” as well. I’m confused. x
Thanks to Edd above for linking to my song! What it doesn’t say is that despite my scepticism (I lean towards the split-screen theory) I really enjoyed the show – a very good piece of event television.
@Steve (2:12pm) – Yes, that GIF seems to highlight your case pretty well.
I am still astounded at how such a complex switch could be achieved so seemlessly, especially when you consider it was a live broadcast as well. Excellent 🙂
I dotn think ive ever been so nervous in my life lol!!! i felt sick and was sat ith my hands over my mouth as the numbers came out….wanted it to work so much, and when Derren revealed his numbers i was SO SO HAPPY that he got them right, i felt so proud and was genuinly over the moon….Derren looked so happy bless him.
Absolutely incredible. i dont know if you will read this Derren but seriously you are such an inspiration, i admire you so much, i dont think you know how much you touch peoples lives with the things that you do.
Cannot wait till tomorrows show!!! xxx
Does anyone else think that a prediction is not a prediction unless it is shown before the event you are predicting rather than after?
Last night was absolutely brilliant!! Derren did look genuinely worried but we didn’t doubt for a minute it would work! I cannot wait til Friday for the explanation…im curious as to what the misdirection in this event is though. And, I bought my tickets today for Enigma in Edinburgh!! Yay!! It feels like Friday will never come around never mind bloody April!!
Here you go, how it was done regardless of Fridays explanation
Re the comment from @Cornbread Dupree – ‘it is very obvious that this man has a GOOD heart’. And that’s the essence of the difference between Derren Brown and his team and Damien Hirst and his. (prior post/Unicorn)
i love derren but not impressed by this stunt. he revealed the numbers after the draw which is cheating
Loved this last night – so exciting, could not work it out afterwards, the hand held camera threw me right off.
“Thats a year of my life right there” guilty lies!
Easy, having available technology. This is my explanation:
In practice, while the illusionist was aimed at the camera with his left hand, hidden from the public, operate a wireless device that allowed him to post numbers that gradually were mined to the balls, and these, in essence, hiding inside a sophisticated mechanism that allows you to display on their surfaces the numbers sent by the wireless device. The numbers on the balls appear printed but in reality are part of the mechanism of the ball. Example: TV out as the first number is 2, the illusionist, sends the ball first ball number 2, the number will appear on this extract, and gradually the others. 🙂
Sorry for my English, I’m Italian!
Wow that was amazing telly! Well done Derren, my heart was beating really fast, god knows what you were going through! Can’t wait till Friday now 😀 . Love you 😀 X
ok so i think im the first to notice this but derren actually predicted these numbers months ago because they are in his reverse advert, which if you think about it kinda rocks even more! so the lotto numbers were 2,11,23,28,5,9 right here goes – there are 2 girls standing in the middle island, 11 and 9 are the guy who runs shouting taxi ( last 2 letters of taxi – XI roman numerals for 11 and when reversed like the theme of the advert becomes 9 ), 5 – when he is stood on the island and says “when you know what to look for” there are 5 red objects in view at that exact point, 23- after the police car there are 23 cars that go by and 28 i havnt found yet but im sure its in there, would love some help if anyone could find the 28 hidden, hope im right on this !!!!!
There were obviously minature oompa loompas hiding at the bottom of the stand armed with permanent markers. It all makes sense now =)
Wow that was amazing telly! Well done Derren, my heart was beating really fast, god knows what you were going through! Can’t wait till Friday now 😀 . Love you 😀
Derren, you utterly brilliant man. I too felt sick (from about 9pm!!) and had a hand over my mouth as it all happened. I almost don’t care how it was done, I just loved it.
x
Throughout the entire show darren tells us the lottery footage is in real time – this is true, but superimposed somehow on the television set on the stage on which he is standing.
The trick is everything around the television screen that is showing the lottery footage on the stage. While people are switching from channel to channel checking that the footage on television in Darrens stage is in real time, the footage of Darren himself was 5 seconds in the past (he started recording before the show started). When he points to the screen as the lottery show starts, he is simply making a gesture to make us believe he is watching it at the same time we are.
They get results, a stage hand changes the balls ( unseen cos of delay), they skip 5 secs to present time and Darren shows his balls
THIS WAS FRICKIN AWESOME DUDE!
All my guess about how he would do it were wrong, I had thought he would use some earlier feed, like Ceefax/The National Lottery website to get the numbers just a few minutes early…
Now, after watching it, my only guess is the split screen camera trickery, something like:
I expect to be proved totally wrong though on Friday, Derren and his team are always a large number of steps ahead of me!
i must say one of the most entertiaining tv ive ever seen the day had been freat for me as england just won the match against Croatia and now i was waiting for the live envent and DERREN did an amzing job
and for all the people who think there big explaining it and telling there theories why didnt you do your own show and predictict you fucking pricks –
i love u derren (no homo) XD
i think my last post may not be posted as i swore and i forgot not to xD derren brown 4 life!!! 4 cant wait for the one where he makes us stay in our seats xD
@combread
All that stuff about him being super smart, that’s part of the trick. He is misdirecting people away from the fact that he is a normal human being. He does it very well.
Congrats!!
All thanks to Derren, I won £10 on that lottery last night 🙂
Good luck for Friday!
xx
@luke. surely you could find details like this to make almost any number up to 49?
Derren write the numbers down AFTER they are announced to give enough time to check the right number balls are in place and to fade out the split screen…which is when the ball levitation occurs…right when Derren says the number 23 theres a camera movement to the left and back and hey presto we’re back to live screen and wonky balls!
i did think at the time, if those balls were set up earlier and mulled over, would they really be out of line? they wouldve been lined up perfectly with all numbers level.
Brilliant trick, and i totally fell for it! all the work beforehand really did the trick (scuse the pun) i was sucked in good and proper lol!
Well done Mr. Brown, very clever stuff! i shall eat my hat if i am proved wrong on Friday….and change my name to save embarrasment 😀
i kneww youd do it : ) grats you broke my families’ brains xx the gathering was great as well, btw : )
OH annnd the second camera at the back was there because its footage will show us what ACTUALLY happened on stage during the lotto draw….the lil blokey switching the balls for numbered balls. 😉
Everything certainly seems to point to some split-screen, camera trickery.
However it was done though, it was great!
Did I miss something? Where was the prediction?We saw his “prediction” after the result was given. That’s not a prediction, is it?
finally got back on to the blog and can i say that the event on wednesday blew me offf my chair and on to the moon derren you have done it again i knew you would do it
Ed makes an excellent point.
Why didn’t Derren reveal his “prediction” BEFORE the lottery was drawn?
I think that revealing his “prediction” after the numbers were drawn somehow figures into the trick.
Also, it’s interesting to note that the promos for the show all had interesting camera work/editing. Perhaps this was some foreshadowing?
Either way Derren Brown is money.
Canada loves DB!
WOW!! Huge congratulations on creating one of the best TV moments ever. Brilliant entertainment. Derren I bow to you and your wonderfulness 😀 Looking drawrof to Fridays show. Well done to everyone on the team.
@CornbeardDupree- your comment is so lovely. Nice to see some positivity and love in the world. I agree that Derren does appear to have a very good heart. You need to start saving to come and see him live. 🙂
Thank you to Phillis and Abeo for working so hard to try and keep the blog afloat under the tidal wave of new interest. x
x Feel the love guys ;-p
How can everyone that have posted comments in here avoid to notice that Darren holds his board over the TV screen when the lottery takes place? It is a big WHITE board. The back of the board is black and contains a reflector surface that transfers the numbers to his assistant that burns the numbers onto the balls.
i think there will be a massive twist. He will make the Wednesday lottery trick look like something really really simple and dismiss it completly, then on Saturday morning we will wake up to find Derren Brown has won the Euromillions jackpot.
Otherwise, he will reveal that he is living in a reverse world where time goes backwards!!!
….the split screen theory HAS to be correct! I’ve been watching the ‘Lottert Prediction Broadcast’ over and over and at 6.05, you can plainly see that the balls are all in a perfect straight line. HOWEVER, at 6.07, the far left ball is a millimetre up, out of line with the others.
Anyway – all will be revealed tonight, no doubt…..!!!
lol, the blog went down. god dam, that was good work, cant wait for the rest of the shows.. “well done” !!!
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Derren,
What have you done to the one second of “live feed” that went missing after the last ball was drawn ?
There was a little ‘hiccup’ glitch before the feed was turned instantly back to live again.
To the viewers, focus on Darren’s shadow on the white pad he was carrying .. wait till the last ball is dropped, focus and you can notice around less than a second’s worth of missing feed, which is enough time for an assistant to place the correct ball combination and the feed is back on live .. the whole process took less than second ..
Derren .. if this is the answer .. i request to be mentioned on your show on Friday .. 🙂
Eddie D.
@flapjack
Look at 6:06, and focus on the leftmost ball. It goes from being flat against the bottom of the rack, to slightly elevated. This is because there isn’t much horizontal room and the ball got squeezed up when hastily placing it. The ball jumps a good few millimetres, search youtube for a high def video of it. Whether or not he admits that this is how it was done remains to be seen, chances are he will come up with something much more impressive (but plausible enough for people to believe it).
Well, that was awesome telly! I also didn’t know you had taken over the whole of the channel 4 network, what next Pirate Brown! 🙂
Me and a mate sat there with two TV’s, one on channel 4 and one on BBC One (using the analog signal – just to be safe) and the delay was just less than one second. 😉
I’ve been watching it back, over and over, and the people that think it’s CGI tracking / Camera Tricks etc must be wrong, it can’t be that simple! If it was that simple then Friday’s show is going to drag on!
The site keeps going down for me, you must have caught a few peoples eyes! Well done! 😀
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/3906836328_caa457c441_o.gif
Taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-5qebwflA a short animation of two frames from the Derren Brown Lottery prediction. First frame is poorer quality from approx. 1.06 where Derren is introducing the event and all the balls are in a neat line. I have had to crop and zoom this more, and the angle is off to the side slightly, but I have lined this up with a frame from 5.51 where the left hand ball (the highest and last number, also nearer to the off camera edge of the screen) is noticeably higher. There is a fade between 5.37 and 5.43 where the left hand ball appears to rise up as the one image swaps for the other
From watching all of Derren Browns shows this one seems a bit obvious (stone me if I’m wrong)
I once saw a trick he did where he got heads or tails right so many times in a row.
How did he do it? By recording it over and over until he got that many right in a row.
Then there was the horse racing one, where he used a system where he had hundreds of people and just filmed the ones that he’d predicted right every time.
He said he’d spent a year on this,. which makes me think that no ‘e-ink’ or foolery was done with the balls.
This is simple editing. At 6.05 you see the ball on the left hand side rise slightly, this is a silly mistake not ensuring all the balls were flat when they recorded each of the possibilities for the draw.
His showmanship is second to none though, I still love him.
I have a few theories guys. Let me know what you guys think.
1) Derren has already proven that he has a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. So it is possible that he could have studied all the lotteries and made mental images, memorizing where the balls fall in the globe. Then he can calcualate angles, velocity, gravity to accurately predict which balls will actually fall out.. THe reason it had to happen on 9/9/09 is because the earths axis/rotation are probably perfectly aligned to make his prediction most accurate.
2) We have seen Derren manipulate via suggestion to other people. Well, I am sure it is possible for him to make suggestions to a machine = the lottery machine. Afterall, it is man made and therefore has lingering human energy which Derren can tap into and tell it which balls to spit out.
How do you know that camera trickery and cgi tracking are not Derren’s style, unless you know how all previous tricks have worked? So, the man tells us that he doesn’t use camera trickery… he also told us that the only reason he couldn’t reveal the numbers before the draw was because Camelot would not let him (rather than the fact that this would be impossible).
It was a BRILLIANT illusion, and the fact that it was live makes the camera trickery that much more impressive. The biggest mystery of all is to see how he pads all this out for an hour show on Friday…. will anything be revealed at all, or will it turn out to be an hour of side-tracking and diguise?
Looking forward to the rest of the series….
I dunno about you, but I don’t have e-ink balls and micro-printers lying around anywhere in my home-office – unless they’re so small I cannie see them – and I’m sure Mr Brown doesn’t expect that we’re all gadget-kings and will be able to replicate his prophecy via micro-technology. Unless he’s going to reveal a gaping gap in a corporate system which we can exploit on our humble laptops? And forget the camera magic for gawd’s sake. Behave. Yes, he is an illusionist, but he’s also damned good with numbers. Somehow I think his explanation will involve a few sums. Which will rule me out of ever being able to work it all out anyway!
Now with my theories in place i would like to add… IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT ALL THE NEGATIVE CRITICS SAY. I for one FEEL LUCKY TO BE ALIVE at the same time Derren walks this Earth. He is Brilliant beyond comprehension, a witty natural-born performer, amazing mentalist, and a downright genuine person. I have never met him or seen him live, but through all the you tube clips i have seen (and believe me i have seen every single one multiple times), it is very obvious that this man has a GOOD heart. It pisses me off that there are people who have to criticize and belittle a man of such genius that you could never even comprehend on what higher plane of intelligence he is functioning on. So please, just enjoy it and savor the moment…and feel gratitude that he is sharing his brain with us all.
The version of the illusion that he will show us how to perform at home on Friday will involve recording the lottery one week, buying a ticket for those numbers and then playing back the recording the following Saturday to trick one of your mates that the recording is in fact the “live” show. In other words, not the same illusion he pulled off last night at all.
Another thing I would like to add is that Derren Brown offers me inspiration and hope. He entertains me when I am bored in my room with nothing to do and barely even any friends. He is proof that our minds and brains are much more capable and have far greater potential than we know or understand. He is my idol in Life regarding all things intellectual and human. He will probably never know I exist in this world. I might not even ever get a chance to meet him, being that I live in USA, but it doesnt matter. If he ever reads this comment, he will know that there are people who truly appreciate the truth he exudes and the brilliance with which he exudes it. I love you Derren, not in a gross, sexual way.. but in a humanistic way… You have changed my life.. in ways I could never even explain.
Those are not balls … those are EGGS you have there in the stand .. and they float a bit weird in their little compartment .. I just happened to notice … Is it symbolic ..
I can see a few ways via technique and such to make it work … perhaps you can see way before it falls what ball will go in the tube … takes experience .. and the rest can be worked out as well from there on ..
How live is live .. and is what you (we) see really there to watch for what we are looking for ? … Is the stand with the egg balls really on that location ……hm …… ?
Oh well .. I have 10 x 1/5 lottery tickets for the drawing tonight .. we can ask for tickets with a specific last number .. ehehehe … if you take a street you at least get back part of the money …. garanteed …
I
Yep yep yep it was great, but what the flip were all the sites seen/heard/hinted at in the reverse advert (that led to Derren’s surescore site and finally the audiofile with the 5 ‘lottery numbers’ on) about then?
All red herrings?
Subliminal advertising?
I’ve just been compelled to go on Amazon and buy a Joe Navarro book, so if that was it, job done.
(apologies to anyone who hasn’t a clue what I’m on about. It’s just confusing me, the time and effort that went into the wild goose chase that was stucktomysofa.com, retsehcnamdetinu.com, forward-splash.com, snoitciderpserocsnerred.com, etc etc)
I’d like to believe this wasn’t camera trickery. I don’t think thats the kind of thing you would do. However one of those balls moved somewhat by itself, im sure. Oh well at least you’ll tell us tomorow. Unless thats all an “illusion” as well. I’m confused. x
Thanks to Edd above for linking to my song! What it doesn’t say is that despite my scepticism (I lean towards the split-screen theory) I really enjoyed the show – a very good piece of event television.
@Steve (2:12pm) – Yes, that GIF seems to highlight your case pretty well.
I am still astounded at how such a complex switch could be achieved so seemlessly, especially when you consider it was a live broadcast as well. Excellent 🙂
I dotn think ive ever been so nervous in my life lol!!! i felt sick and was sat ith my hands over my mouth as the numbers came out….wanted it to work so much, and when Derren revealed his numbers i was SO SO HAPPY that he got them right, i felt so proud and was genuinly over the moon….Derren looked so happy bless him.
Absolutely incredible. i dont know if you will read this Derren but seriously you are such an inspiration, i admire you so much, i dont think you know how much you touch peoples lives with the things that you do.
Cannot wait till tomorrows show!!! xxx
Does anyone else think that a prediction is not a prediction unless it is shown before the event you are predicting rather than after?
Last night was absolutely brilliant!! Derren did look genuinely worried but we didn’t doubt for a minute it would work! I cannot wait til Friday for the explanation…im curious as to what the misdirection in this event is though. And, I bought my tickets today for Enigma in Edinburgh!! Yay!! It feels like Friday will never come around never mind bloody April!!
Here you go, how it was done regardless of Fridays explanation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqAt2akPHJ8
Re the comment from @Cornbread Dupree – ‘it is very obvious that this man has a GOOD heart’. And that’s the essence of the difference between Derren Brown and his team and Damien Hirst and his. (prior post/Unicorn)
i love derren but not impressed by this stunt. he revealed the numbers after the draw which is cheating
Loved this last night – so exciting, could not work it out afterwards, the hand held camera threw me right off.
“Thats a year of my life right there” guilty lies!
Easy, having available technology. This is my explanation:
In practice, while the illusionist was aimed at the camera with his left hand, hidden from the public, operate a wireless device that allowed him to post numbers that gradually were mined to the balls, and these, in essence, hiding inside a sophisticated mechanism that allows you to display on their surfaces the numbers sent by the wireless device. The numbers on the balls appear printed but in reality are part of the mechanism of the ball. Example: TV out as the first number is 2, the illusionist, sends the ball first ball number 2, the number will appear on this extract, and gradually the others. 🙂
Sorry for my English, I’m Italian!
Wow that was amazing telly! Well done Derren, my heart was beating really fast, god knows what you were going through! Can’t wait till Friday now 😀 . Love you 😀 X
ok so i think im the first to notice this but derren actually predicted these numbers months ago because they are in his reverse advert, which if you think about it kinda rocks even more! so the lotto numbers were 2,11,23,28,5,9 right here goes – there are 2 girls standing in the middle island, 11 and 9 are the guy who runs shouting taxi ( last 2 letters of taxi – XI roman numerals for 11 and when reversed like the theme of the advert becomes 9 ), 5 – when he is stood on the island and says “when you know what to look for” there are 5 red objects in view at that exact point, 23- after the police car there are 23 cars that go by and 28 i havnt found yet but im sure its in there, would love some help if anyone could find the 28 hidden, hope im right on this !!!!!
There were obviously minature oompa loompas hiding at the bottom of the stand armed with permanent markers. It all makes sense now =)
Wow that was amazing telly! Well done Derren, my heart was beating really fast, god knows what you were going through! Can’t wait till Friday now 😀 . Love you 😀
Derren, you utterly brilliant man. I too felt sick (from about 9pm!!) and had a hand over my mouth as it all happened. I almost don’t care how it was done, I just loved it.
x
Throughout the entire show darren tells us the lottery footage is in real time – this is true, but superimposed somehow on the television set on the stage on which he is standing.
The trick is everything around the television screen that is showing the lottery footage on the stage. While people are switching from channel to channel checking that the footage on television in Darrens stage is in real time, the footage of Darren himself was 5 seconds in the past (he started recording before the show started). When he points to the screen as the lottery show starts, he is simply making a gesture to make us believe he is watching it at the same time we are.
They get results, a stage hand changes the balls ( unseen cos of delay), they skip 5 secs to present time and Darren shows his balls
THIS WAS FRICKIN AWESOME DUDE!
All my guess about how he would do it were wrong, I had thought he would use some earlier feed, like Ceefax/The National Lottery website to get the numbers just a few minutes early…
Now, after watching it, my only guess is the split screen camera trickery, something like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbvngiztFVk
But with more wobble and doing it live…
I expect to be proved totally wrong though on Friday, Derren and his team are always a large number of steps ahead of me!
i must say one of the most entertiaining tv ive ever seen the day had been freat for me as england just won the match against Croatia and now i was waiting for the live envent and DERREN did an amzing job
and for all the people who think there big explaining it and telling there theories why didnt you do your own show and predictict you fucking pricks –
i love u derren (no homo) XD
i think my last post may not be posted as i swore and i forgot not to xD derren brown 4 life!!! 4 cant wait for the one where he makes us stay in our seats xD
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All that stuff about him being super smart, that’s part of the trick. He is misdirecting people away from the fact that he is a normal human being. He does it very well.
Congrats!!
All thanks to Derren, I won £10 on that lottery last night 🙂
Good luck for Friday!
xx
@luke. surely you could find details like this to make almost any number up to 49?
Derren write the numbers down AFTER they are announced to give enough time to check the right number balls are in place and to fade out the split screen…which is when the ball levitation occurs…right when Derren says the number 23 theres a camera movement to the left and back and hey presto we’re back to live screen and wonky balls!
i did think at the time, if those balls were set up earlier and mulled over, would they really be out of line? they wouldve been lined up perfectly with all numbers level.
Brilliant trick, and i totally fell for it! all the work beforehand really did the trick (scuse the pun) i was sucked in good and proper lol!
Well done Mr. Brown, very clever stuff! i shall eat my hat if i am proved wrong on Friday….and change my name to save embarrasment 😀
i kneww youd do it : ) grats you broke my families’ brains xx the gathering was great as well, btw : )
OH annnd the second camera at the back was there because its footage will show us what ACTUALLY happened on stage during the lotto draw….the lil blokey switching the balls for numbered balls. 😉
Everything certainly seems to point to some split-screen, camera trickery.
However it was done though, it was great!
Did I miss something? Where was the prediction?We saw his “prediction” after the result was given. That’s not a prediction, is it?
finally got back on to the blog and can i say that the event on wednesday blew me offf my chair and on to the moon derren you have done it again i knew you would do it
Ed makes an excellent point.
Why didn’t Derren reveal his “prediction” BEFORE the lottery was drawn?
I think that revealing his “prediction” after the numbers were drawn somehow figures into the trick.
Also, it’s interesting to note that the promos for the show all had interesting camera work/editing. Perhaps this was some foreshadowing?
Either way Derren Brown is money.
Canada loves DB!
WOW!! Huge congratulations on creating one of the best TV moments ever. Brilliant entertainment. Derren I bow to you and your wonderfulness 😀 Looking drawrof to Fridays show. Well done to everyone on the team.
@CornbeardDupree- your comment is so lovely. Nice to see some positivity and love in the world. I agree that Derren does appear to have a very good heart. You need to start saving to come and see him live. 🙂
Thank you to Phillis and Abeo for working so hard to try and keep the blog afloat under the tidal wave of new interest. x
x Feel the love guys ;-p
How can everyone that have posted comments in here avoid to notice that Darren holds his board over the TV screen when the lottery takes place? It is a big WHITE board. The back of the board is black and contains a reflector surface that transfers the numbers to his assistant that burns the numbers onto the balls.
i think there will be a massive twist. He will make the Wednesday lottery trick look like something really really simple and dismiss it completly, then on Saturday morning we will wake up to find Derren Brown has won the Euromillions jackpot.
Otherwise, he will reveal that he is living in a reverse world where time goes backwards!!!
….the split screen theory HAS to be correct! I’ve been watching the ‘Lottert Prediction Broadcast’ over and over and at 6.05, you can plainly see that the balls are all in a perfect straight line. HOWEVER, at 6.07, the far left ball is a millimetre up, out of line with the others.
Anyway – all will be revealed tonight, no doubt…..!!!
lol, the blog went down. god dam, that was good work, cant wait for the rest of the shows.. “well done” !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c53m0IQ6f4
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