I dont mind watching his shows but the horse racing one he did a while back was pointless.

If he can do this legit, why isnt he a multi-billionaire?

Its an illusion. Just like Saints grand final ambitions

Im looking forward to seeing what the next ones like. He will use subliminal messages to make me unable to get out of my chair

He'll have to settle for being a millionaire instead

He is an amazing showman. I have seen him live twice, and last time a frisbee landed on my knee. I really didnt want to go on stage but felt i must. He did the 20 question thing.Three questions was all he used, is it an animal or mineral? bigger than a piano? then something else daft, and then said it. I think i had written Lemon.
It wasnt a camera trick but not sure on the deep maths thing either

There's no mathematical way to 'predict' lottery numbers - every outcome is as probable as another. Tis a trick pure and simple, whether involving camera trickery or otherwise. What I like about Brown is the fact that he shows how he does some of his tricks. I suspect a well-trained 'magician' could work out how he does a lot, but he also does have an incredible memory and ability to influence people in surprising ways. I just like watching stuff like that for some reason.

If no one believes he would be stupid enough, then that just makes it even more likely that he;d get away it.

The subliminal messages one that he's doing on Friday to stick us all to our chairs will be interesting viewing, I'm obviously going to Sky+ it as i'll be at Headingley till late glued to the stand!!!

If he does this do you think he'll also make us not remember whats happened or that we were ever stuck to the chair??

Big fan of Derrens but the programme on friday was poor, padded for 40mins with his usual tricks then a lame explanation of "a few people locked in a room picked the numbers".

The 3rd scenario that he spent 20 seconds explaining sounded the most believable but would he even chance giving himself up? and what about the lotto adjudicator does he not check the balls just before the draw?

But if it was rigged then he could have shown his "prediction" before hand and it would have been 10 times as impressive.

But in the end he did it, maybe he shouldn’t have bothered with the programme on friday and just left it with the live wednesday prediction.

Sorry, not posted until now because I was not able to watch the show until last night, having been at the game on Friday.

I was a little disappointed with the show itself but still thought it was an 'ok' watch.

Of course the show was in itself and act of showmanship and deception deigned to sow seeds of doubt in your mind as it went on!

I have a degree in Civil Engineering and I am aware of the Wisdom of Crowds Theory because it has been applied to engineering disasters, most notably the Columbia shuttle disaster were many of the less senior engineers were kept out of many areas of shuttle development and as such the lack of redundancy in the critical yet simple 'o' ring problem went unnoticed. As I understand it though, it is very much an economists theory and not a mathematicians, and the theory has recently been popularised by economists. It has also been applied to the the USA's failure to 'spot' the 9/11 disaster and lately been acknowledged for the reason the UK intelligence community did spot the airline plotter bombers in time. In summary it is about collective perception and not collective mathematics... as such I think that whole theory of that been the answer is rubbish (IMO).

The coin trick flipping trick he did however might have been based on the Monty Hall law of variable change (if you saw the film 21, there was the basic explanation in the film) and as such, a pure mathematical based solution.

So, my conclusion is that he fixed the machine as he said at the end!!!

I do remember that in the early days of the lottery a physicist did postulate that very, very small differences in the weight of the lottery balls just naturally present as part of the manufacturing of the balls, would possibly lead to some balls being 'picked' by the machine more often than others. Basically the balls that were slightly heavier, albeit by a minuscule amount, would come out more often. I also think that his theory lead to the lottery introducing more machines and more sets of balls to eliminate even the potential for that to be true!

So a machine with 6 heavier balls, as Derren said he might have done, would probably work if they were significantly yet relatively heavier.

It would also explain why he did not include the bonus ball... as he could never predict the order!