Derren Brown – Lottery Solution Revealed
So following on from my last post I thought it might be fun to talk about what Derren is telling us right now live on channel 4, in relation to how he predicted the lottery results on Wednesday.
He’s opened the show and quickly talked about how he was fascinated reading about all the solutions people had come up with, lasers, mirrors, split screens, everything we discussed previously. By mentioning them out right he appears to have dismissed them out of hand.
His emphasis for the show seems to be “how to predict a machines random numbers”, starting off by demonstrating he could understand how he could predict a humans behaviour by getting a girl on stage who didn’t like mice. He had four boxes on stage covered up and told the girl one of them contained a mouse. She had to put her hand into 3 of the boxes and she didn’t find the mouse. Infact there was no mouse, but derren had put a picture of a mouse on a card in front of the box and we were told he needed her to fear the mouse in order for him to ensure it worked.
Next we had 20 paper cups and the guy was told there was a pointy knife under one of them, would he stomp down on 14 of the paper cups for £500,000 if he happened to hit the knife. Again there was no knife underneath the cups, but a mouse under one, which of course he didn’t hit.
Then he worked on a group average theme, if a large group of people studied the previous lottery numbers and then made their predictions, Add the numbers up and divide by the number of people who made the prediction in the hope that a group would offer a better average. The best they managed was 3, well done to them they won a tenner!
He then said “the greed” was maybe getting in the way and stopped them from doing the maths to see if they’d won until after the lottery. Along with some kind of spirit writing (which supposedly lets your inner conscience take control), they then managed to get four of the numbers right, and were very close with the other two.
This put them at the last show which was broadcast live, where they managed to get all the lottery numbers correct and we saw them rejoicing on screen that they’d done it.
I’m going to go get a cider, then I’ll post part 3, why all of this is a complete load of fly infested rubbish….
