As others have said, that because it is a trick of mis-direction or showmanship... he is not a real Harry Potter!

I think I have worked out how he done it though... and it is quite simple (if I am of course even close to being right!).

The camera does play tricks. In fact half of the show was indeed a live feed, and then if you watch closely the camera wobbles a little for a second and it switches to what's probably a pre-recorded feed.

The guy's full of s**t!

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He pishes all over Darren Brown!

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That just looks like good old fashioned magic to me, nothing like what Brown does.

Arghh, but was it broadcast live? When the BBC say it is a live lottery draw, do they mean it is been broadcast live or is it just live in front of the audience at the BBC?

I think the fact that he did not turn the numbers round because he said the BBC have the legal right to broadcast the lottery result first might be the key.

It was not a prediction, it was the result, and that what the legal issue!

I could of course be totally wrong, but that is where my mind is taking me.

He also does use plenty of 'tricks' but never 'camera tricks' so I don't think that was how he did it!

He's getting a full programme out of "a years" work about doing this on friday so I hope it's something better than that.

So he says but can you remember his show on how to win at the races? All he did really was show you that one women winning all the way through, convince you he was great, and then told you the most obvious thing, they had thousands of people betting on all the options and she was the one that was 'lucky' enough to win every race!

Seen him Live when i was in Vegas hot.

Is it brewed by Carlsberg?

If it is, it clearly will not be brewed in Leeds!

I love the 'non-magic' stuff Brown does. Absolutely fantastic when he took on about 12 chess grand masters (or whatever they're called) and managed to beat a couple, lose a couple and draw most. They were gobsmacked, but his trick of copying moves from one game to the next - in effect making these guys play against each other - was sheer briliance. And the guy has some kind of memory to be able to do that.

I dunno about him really, firstly he has to be the most smug person i'v ever seen - although this could just be part of his persona. I think he lost credibility with that russian roulette thing - there is no way that any of the TV companies or producers could sanction that if it was real and even if it was then he's either got balls of steel or a screw loose - not sure which.

With this its clearly a camera trick involved, when Derren Brown says he cant show the numbers for "legal reasons" itll be because there arent any numbers on the balls.Ive found this video on youtube which i think could be the closest to the theory of how he does it.

rlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v


If you pause the video at 5.34 you'll see all the balls are level, when he's writing the numbers down its for him to bide time, at 5.52 the first ball is slightly higher than the others by a few mm's