When he goes to walk behind the stand the balls are on he seems to do that very carefully and make himself thin. there is a printer set up behind. But i will prob be prooved wrong on friday.

When he is watching the tv he has his left hand over his mouth the entire time but in the above video it looks as though his right elbow is moving (see just at his back to the right).

obviously he didn't know the numbers before hand.

If this was the case, the real trick would have been buying a ticket with the predicted numbers and donating the winnings to charity.

Since this wasn't the case, the balls/numbers on the balls were somehow placed there after the drawing.

How he did it doesn't matter because there are a million ways to make it happen. So lame!

Originally posted by Enrikez
obviously he didn't know the numbers before hand.

If this was the case, the real trick would have been buying a ticket with the predicted numbers and donating the winnings to charity.

Since this wasn't the case, the balls/numbers on the balls were somehow placed there after the drawing.

I wouldn't be so sure about that, I have Sky H.D and never took my eyes off that stand and never saw a thing, and switching it was made harder because it wasn't a fixed camera. The printer method, while plausible doesn't add up either, so god knows.

Originally posted by Neo-V™

Originally posted by Enrikez
obviously he didn't know the numbers before hand.

If this was the case, the real trick would have been buying a ticket with the predicted numbers and donating the winnings to charity.

Since this wasn't the case, the balls/numbers on the balls were somehow placed there after the drawing.

I wouldn't be so sure about that, I have Sky H.D and never took my eyes off that stand and never saw a thing, and switching it was made harder because it wasn't a fixed camera. The printer method, while plausible doesn't add up either, so god knows.

You have got to be kidding me.

listen to this similarly done 'feat'

Brown tossed a coin showing ten heads in a row to prove it was not impossible, just highly improbable

WOW! How did he do that?

Brown had simply tossed a coin repeatedly until ten heads had come up in a row, taking over nine hours to produce the required film.

Sounds pretty LAME to me

I don't know but my guess (I bet this is wrong!!)

A special type of emulsion painted onto the balls that turns black when hit by a laser, which of course is hidden up high & out of camera shot & as the lottery numbers are drawn, the laser draws the winning numbers into the emulsion on the balls (?)

Other than that I really don't know, I genuinely think it was all done live, I don't think Derren knew the numbers beforehand, therefore in my understanding the numbers had to get onto the balls somehow live & real time as the lottery numbers were picked, all in full view without any obvious interference.

To be honest though this solution is not the typical Derren Brown way to do things; with him it's always, hypnosis, reading body language & powerful persuasion & mis-direction....rather than resorting to electronic gadgets & trickery or camera tricks...so I bet I'm wrong & in that case - I'm stumped & I'll just have to be patient & watch on friday when he reveals his technique.

If he had shown these numbers, the correctly predicted ones, before the draw...then we would have something interesting to talk about.

I do like Derren... i find his shows very interesting and very entertaining.

But he did NOT Predict the lottery results...

He showed his choices after the draw.

Originally posted by blupblup
If he had shown these numbers, the correctly predicted ones, before the draw...then we would have something interesting to talk about.

I do like Derren... i find his shows very interesting and very entertaining.

But he did NOT Predict the lottery results...

He showed his choices after the draw.

Now this would be a great and compelling trick.

Unfortunately, this was not the trick we saw. What we saw was a hidden way to place balls in front of the viewer without them seeing how you did it.

Not a good trick.

It's a trick in itself as to how the numbers appeared to be there the whole time... and will be interesting to see how on friday.

but i was kinda disappointed at the show actually.

I expected an actual prediction