ok so last night derren brown apparently predicted the lottery result. i'm a big derren brown fan and fascinated by his jedi powers. here's a clip of the live prediction which i actually missed so thanks youtube!
i just found this link posted on derren's own blog of what other people think. looks like these are all the wrong answers to get people talking.
my thoughts? first of all it's obviously a trick. he can't actually predict the lottery result - and even if he could he's not gunna tell the nation. i'm pretty baffled how the live trick was done but derren brown cannot predict the results.
two reasons: not so long ago he did a tv episode titled 'the system' fooling people into thinking he had a guaranteed method to predict horse race results (watch it here if you haven't seen it) which turned out to be a way of bending the truth to susceptible minded people. the other reason is what he says in the first video in this post. first he says he will predict the results (which he appears to have done successfully), then explain how he did it and how you can do it too, but it's the following show title: "how to control the nation" that seems to point to it obviously been fake.
my theory is the whole lottery trick is actually part of the "how to control the nation" show 'cause it's obviously a big way to grab everyone's attention and get them interested. chances are fridays show (where he apparently will tell the nation how to win the lottery) it part of a trick to get the nation todo something they wouldn't normally do to confirm that derren is basically a mind reading jedi who knows what your thinking and can make you do whatever he wants you to.
anyway that's my guestimated prediction. maybe i'm wrong and from friday onwards winning the lottery will become alot easier for the world.
