So how the fuck
did Derren Brown just predict the six numbers for the Wednesday lottery main draw? It was completely live, in sync with the live BBC draw broadcast, and I can't imagine how he's done it. Of course, it's a trick, but I'm suitably impressed.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 22:49, 11 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It sure is a trick...
And I can't wait to see how he did it. Remember, if it was possible for anyone to do it, Camelot would never have let it get to air. He fascinates me, I wish I had his SKILLZ.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 22:54, Reply)

Hush you, I like him
he reminds me of Wormulus
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:16, Reply)

You misunderstand.
I really like Derren Brown.. And I really do wish I could do what he does! :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:57, Reply)

Ahhh but would you like him so much if you knew.....
That he was a raging bender!??!!??


/Thursday homophobia
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 9:17, Reply)

I don't know
but I surely as hell would love to. It's making my brain itch.
(berk, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:00, Reply)

He is one clever fucker and no mistake
I have no idea how he did that!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:12, Reply)

All BBC broadcasts operate on a smallish time delay (a few minutes)
So they can bleep things out/dick about if things go wrong.

He clearly got someone on the inside to relay the numbers, likely over a phone, as soon as they came out. It's the media, therefore it's a hoax. Doesn't mean it's not a clever one...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:13, Reply)

I used to spin out my wife with a trick similar
We had an analogue TV in one room and a digital in another and the delay between the two was just enough that I could turn the volume down and shout the numbers through just before they popped out on the TV she was watching. Kept me amused for a while that one.
( Peej, Wed 9 Sep 2009, 23:15, Reply)

there's....
the delay thing - and possibly misdirection, were those balls in shot for the whole 10 minutes? I forgot to watch because he made a joke at the start about watching them... I was most disappointed because I thought the reveal was tonight, but instead I will have to watch it drunk and forget it on Friday night...

I wonder if it's like how he did the coin toss trick last year...???
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 2:57, Reply)

His pre-predicted numbers were in shot the whole time
on a clear perspex plinth. There was virtually no delay between broadcasts, and there really doesn't seem to be a way to do it. He didn't 'call the numbers out' - they were already written down.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 7:51, Reply)

split screen
left hand side of the screen stops shaking just before balls are called. They cut to a still on the left.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 10 Sep 2009, 11:47, Reply)