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TV illusionist Derren Brown is set to perform what could be his most impressive stunt yet - by correctly predicting the winning Lottery numbers.  The Channel 4 star will be filmed live from a secret location on Wednesday night, forecasting which numbers will be drawn from the National Lottery Machine live on BBC 1. All going well, Mr Brown will then appear on another show on Friday night to reveal his predicting technique.  A source said: 'Derren is extremely confident he has worked out how to predict those magic balls. 'Of course the thing with this is not just the excitement of him doing it - but the fact he'll tell people how to do it. 'Magicians famously never give up their secrets and are frowned upon if they do.
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[Belial]

I wonder how many people will be putting those numbers on?

[juliedrinkwine]

Well, the more people who win, the smaller the prize each....  bet we all win tuppence ha'penny.....   (bet no-one knows what that means!!)

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Britain’s top man of mystery – Derren Brown – appeared on television last night and apparently predicted the six winning lottery numbers.It was a sensational stunt that will convince the majority of the vast viewing audience that he has incredible psychic powers. But there was nothing paranormal in his much-hyped performance, shown on Channel 4 and its associated channels simultaneously with the BBC’s live transmission of the lottery results. Here’s how I reckon he did it…

I would not normally spoil the magic of an illusionist’s tricks by speculating about the method, but since Brown will reveal the secret on Friday night … why shouldn’t I predict what he will say? In doing so I will apply the same logic that he has applied in the past to investigations of psychic claims.

Logic tells us that he cannot possibly have known in advance what numbers would come up in the lottery. Why? Because he’s not psychic!

On that basis, the finger of suspicion must point to the six balls sitting on a stand alongside the TV monitor on which the lottery results were shown. They were in full view throughout but they had their backs towards the camera until after the lottery balls stopped rolling.

Logic again demands to know why we weren’t shown the numbers before the results were known. In his preamble, Derren Brown gave a plausible-sounding explanation of strict rules involving Camelot and the BBC, but that didn’t explain why he couldn’t show us the numbers in advance.

There is a simple reason why he didn’t show us the numbers in advance: at that point there were no numbers on the balls!

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Derren Brown last night claimed that he used a traditional 'country fair' technique to accurately predict Wednesday's lottery result. But this was immediately ridiculed by experts who said it was 'complete rubbish' and that he had used TV wizardry to fool the public.

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