Derren Brown - The Experiments: The Secret of Luck (Full)

[Median333]

@trapperxzw I agree with you. It is irrelevant if the toss at the end is legit or not (which i highly doubt)

[jamesvozar1]

21:00 WTF useless

[potasiu2]

37:50 murder face!

[earthypig]

of course that dog was a lucky dog.... it was chosen by derren wasn't it? ^.^

[PerfectPotion]

Derren Brown didn't take into consideration the frequency of opportunities and the frequency of good/bad events. He doesn't entirely disprove luck, but then again, that wasn't what he was trying to do.

[mustatuuli1]

Haha, the Stig at 1.40

[PalenSkate]

4 dislikers didn´t find the dog!

[ahazemanyes]

My first guess for the dice to hit the 4 would be that Derren chose ca. 10 comparable towns, with a good spread around the UK, and let them all undergo the same procedure thus making the chances some town would win, with the dice rolling, reasonably high. The same trick he used on the horse track betting episode.

[torymorton]

youve just been MIND FUCKED !!!

[kamy2425]

The biggest and most though provoking scene in the entire episode is WHAT THE HELL IS THE REPORTER WRITING AT 34:10 !?

[Devoti]

omg. i got a tear in my eye when wayne was the one betting his life savings. at 43:00 i was already having a heart attack. can't help to feel that Derren most definitely had a trick up his sleeve to make it roll a 4.

[Brunchtkts]

He can use the stick to point!

[omsmada]

2:15 dose Briton teeth

[Pasteldqueijo]

"It's also the largest area for lesbians around"

lol

[RasAhmose]

Good one.

love the girl in this epeisode. Shes awesome.

hot to. lol :P

[mrmogensen]

meh..

[elbruces]

A) Darren Brown never takes anybody's money.

B) As soon as he had the audience vote on the die result, I knew the die role must be rigged. Getting an audience to choose a predetermined choice is his main trick.

[DJDangerHouse01]

17:45 is that the stig driving that car?

[shadowgloria]

Boy, I don't blame Wayne for thinking he's unlucky. If his wife and/or daughter ever smiled, I think their faces would just crumble apart.

[rdy2pone]

AHAHAHA 11:51 you can use it to point

[kejotikyuri1986]

10:35 is that a James Joyce toy????

[cynicalsugar1455]

by making people believe it's lucky it became lucky.

[tueblichfeldt]

34:10 what is she writing?

[hpathbp25]

@tueblichfeldt Shorthand.

[Brunchtkts]

@tueblichfeldt Shorthand. It's a quick way to taking notes journalists learn.

[superdue123]

@tueblichfeldt

my guess is some sort of short hand, probably writing down what he says in the interview or questions she'd like to ask, and therefore writes down quickly.

[Devoti]

@tueblichfeldt dyslectic maybe?

[leahwf]

@Devoti btchplease, stenography

[Devoti]

@leahwf lol, humorless.

[leahwf]

@tueblichfeldt stenography

[310BPM]

@tueblichfeldt

short-hand, stenography. secretaries, court-writers and journalists use it. :)

[jkcjkcjkcjkcjkcjkcjk]

@tueblichfeldt It's called shorthand, reporters use it to quickly record interviews.

[trapperxzw]

The last trick with the dice is a classic one, that dice is a gimmick, maybe something that has a metal and there is an electromagnet under that 'stage' that activates on a switch. If you look very closely you can see how the dice rolls in that cup is kinda weird.

The true lesson that Derren reminded us of is : Everything is in the mindset. You feel lucky you will be lucky, you believe you will do anything, you will do it, it's that simple.

[bozaki87]

@trapperxzw i expected the dice to be fiddled with.... but how did the ppl chose the number the dice was designed to roll? i suppose it has something to do with the beginning of the vid :) who knows how many ppl saw the number four that day - or for how many it played an important role in order for them to chose it :)

[EricSmyth14]

@trapperxzw Hmmmm but they crowd got to choose the number...

[MAFiA303]

I wonder if he lost the last chance; probably would've broke the whole experiment.

me voice in me head telling me last roll was faked

[Supercarexpert4]

17:39 The Stig is driving!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arekdbz3]

Their accent is soooooo irritating.

[starcrafter13terran]

@arekdbz3 I think it's sexy.

[JacksonKillroy]

Is that the Stig driving at 17:42 ?

[cheeseburgerwalrus2]

The Secret of Luck: "taking opportunities".  nice, Derren.

[DJSeba]

I wonder how many towns Derren did this in and only showed us ofcourse the one with the happy ending for good telly.

[3dmoddeler]

Darren brown did NOT decreased the chance but made it more interesting..

the chance is still 1 in 6 for him to win..

i wonder did he know that the bucher would win ??

or did he use his poweres to get the bucher to win, we will never know..

[lisaloveselvis]

6:17 - "The Polished Knob"

[1NF0RM4T10N]

How is the Name of the song starting at 26:08 & going to 29:11 ????? Please tell me! anybody!!

[evolvo1]

28:52 Even the dog touched the statue! lol!

[marsproject23]

opportunity should be measured with/against risk assessment.

[marsproject23]

There is no secret to luck.

If people start betting their life savings because they feel they should follow opportunity. That is horrible. It is like the 3 card jack things that street performers do. Get some guy in the crowd to win (working with the performer) and other people think it is a good idea to throw there money away. Shame on you Derren Brown.

-The fool's fool is himself is believes he is a profit.

[Alexiaden93]

@marsproject23 Well obviously people still realise there is a risk involved. The moral of the story is not to bet your life savings, and RISK losing everything, but to take opportunities that do not have any negative risk involved. Opportunities like answering a question about 5 types of steak, calling a number, picking up a £50 note, helping fix a broken car. Essentially looking at life in a more positive way, and not ignore opportunities. Derren has "only" done good.

[BlinzerOmega]

this may prove that luck doesn't exist... but it doesn't prove that our minds don't affect anything. and it doesn't prove that nothing has a say on the way things go.

[s2000ander]

doest the bible say; bless the ignorant? (thougt it did, but really not sure). Isnt it a big relief then that this is who it works. Just believe something and it is true.

[Alexiaden93]

@s2000ander Ignorance is not a factor. The point is that your attitude defines your actions. If you believe in luck you will embrace opportunities. The dog was a driving force that helped people live "luckier" lives, much like religion. Take away the dog, or religion, human beings need to understand that life isn't about superstition and rumour, but about our own attitude. People can do good without a lucky dog or religion. It's quite uplifting, not that I have an agenda against God.

[hashimanher]

wayne u did it

[ehart690]

by this experiment u can control a all country, holly shit ........... strange and funny in the same time...... i was thinking does we have a possibility to make our chois or....?

[MikeJPEV]

Lesson for 2012: "look out for opportunities"

[UUreviews]

to the people concerned with how the ending dice roll was done you are missing the point, no matter who had bet the most derren obviously wasn't going to let them lose their money, and so there was either a trick done to make the dice roll on four or else there was editing in the video to make it land on 4, either way this had nothing to do with the experiment...the magic of this episode is the change of mindset that happened in wayne in order to get him to place that bet, beautiful episode.

[Petarosus]

In my mind. Derren swapped dice when he was getting it from that guy from audience. And on the third roll electro-magnet was turned on. To electrified for "classic" magic, but in my mind (there might other ways to influence roll of a dice) only one reliable enough.

[dauwg99]

@Petarosus i agree with you. must have. how anticlimatic would it hv been if it wasnt a 4

[immak4u]

i hate these people's accent. can only hear "eh" "ah" "uh" "oh"

there is no H so why add H to every letter you speak? "luhkeh" "lehsbiuhns" "impahectuh" "blaheck poohel"

wtf seriously?

the whole country speaks like that? wtf

[dragnfr39]

@immak4u dam...that was the purest definition of ignorance.

[s2000ander]

whos being ignorant than? derren or the town or we?

[cwbyfan93]

@immak4u R u fuckin stupid

[immak4u]

old man: its also the largest are foe lesbians in the country.

fuck yeah they are really LUCKY!

[MeatDrums]

@immak4u Or maybe very fucking unlucky. ;)

[knightsintodreams]

i was equating 6 thousand pounds to 6 thousand dollars. is that not right?

[UUreviews]

@knightsintodreams i don't know the exact conversion but it would be very roughly 12000 dollars

[popikat]

it is quite obvious, you have something like 40-50 (chosen by derren on certain criteria) people BELIEVE in the magic luck-dog, afterwards in the magic itself - even without the cult of object, then you make them look like a Whole Town (by filming and cutting in a certain way, plus the sound and music).

[popikat]

then you have the "non-believer" transformed into a believer. this is the most convincing part of the play, because you forget that wayne is in fact a rational person. a rational person, whom derren explained the process of faking "good luck" just in order to make people (including him) believe in it

[popikat]

"good luck" i describe as being actually easy-fake luck, or "beginner's" luck (to "encourage" other naive people to try and "go for it" as well). everyone knows that gambling, poker, all that kind of games of luck are, in fact, mathematics and pattern memorizing. otherwise we're talking about cheating and/or making ARRANGEMENTS. it has, generally speaking, NOTHING TO DO WITH LUCK. which is in fact, what happened in this case.

[popikat]

"It wouldn't be in Derren Brown's style to actually have the option that the man fails the dice roll. Derren is not the type that would actually let all his efforts end up in a dice roll at the end. He's way too calculated for that." I agree. thats why on that particular scene, derren had an agreement with wayne. wayne didn't put the money on his belief in "luck", he just took an opportunity that derren offered and made his own luck, which believe me, wasn't 500K worth of money

[popikat]

be real for just a sec, who would give you one half of mil for nothing, just as a bet? NOBODY, or maybe just a stupid stupid gambler or rich dude who knows nothing about the games of luck. derren aint stupid, thats for sure.

[popikat]

but the fact that derren understands some of the Universe's rules, doesn't make him a god. the process starts when you begin to charge him this way, as described. he becomes a god because you see him as one. but is it a good god or a bad god? that's the question i'd like you to ask yourselves

[UUreviews]

@popikat you are over analyzing, derren wasn't trying to unlock the secrets of the universe with this video, neither was he trying to prove or disprove luck...he made a very moving story piece about a small town and a few individuals in it whilst showing us that if you have a positive mindset positive things will happen, but if you don't expect good things to happen, they won't....there's not a lot more too it than that, sorry you didn't see the beauty in it.

[popikat]

giving away your energy (attention and time) just to find money on the street, giving away your food tastes and preferences for the sake of marketing research and the development of consumerist society, gambling with chances, everything sounds like selling your soul

[popikat]

BELIEF is a form of manifestation, but it should not be preoccupied with finding EASY LUCK. gambling your lifetime savings on a dice just 'cause you "go for it" is absolutely stupid. that is big bullshit for stupid people, who will go for it too, when the "opportunity" comes. "he failed in taking the bait". someone good doesn't have to tempt you with bait to make something good for you.

[popikat]

psychology,misdirection,sugges­tion and showmanship, in the way they are performed by those tricky evilish eyes (which are reflections of the soul, btw) of darren brown, are veery familiar to the way someone called "devil" acts. mocking the naive "lambs" of God, he manages through perseverance to overcome the freedom of people's choice, demythicizing the process by explaining it in a sensational manner, "rewarding them for helping them". "helping" them BELIEVE in easy luck like gambling

[amanuscar]

his daughter looks pissed off

[amanuscar]

yeah wtf @ 34:10 ?!?!?!?!?!

[amanuscar]

I was kinda expecting the town to form into a lynch mob there at the end haha

[amanuscar]

wtf is he walking down the road in his apron for?? lol

[88Grabarz]

"keep the lucky dice" ;D

[lifeisdigital]

It wouldn't be in Derren Brown's style to actually have the option that the man fails the dice roll. Derren is not the type that would actually let all his efforts end up in a dice roll at the end. He's way too calculated for that. So I'd like to believe that the man was destined to win - and not by luck. If there's anything you see in the show, then it's that all luck is only the appearance of luck. It would make sense that the last part is also just the appearance of luck.

[MagicDanDini]

@lifeisdigital Don't forget he failed the Roulette spin..

[arnyone]

Haha, the psychic fail.

[Rtv03]

@arnyone That was just painful to watch.

[oscie1]

Derren Brown is AMAZING

[msugda]

34:37 Looks like it says lucky dick roll!

[a5noble2]

They made that psychic look SO STUPID, I love watching Derren Brown.

[kejotikyuri1986]

@a5noble2 I guess she'll stop robbing people of money now :D

[Nuddy187]

"The Polished Knob" Gotta love a traditional English Pub!!!

[ponddigger89]

*a remote controlled electromagnet.

The only thing is it doesn't look like he palmed it, and the guy from the toy shop might have recognised a dice that wasn't his original one. And Wayne was allowed to keep the dice, which would be risky if it was rigged.

The only thing I'm sure of is that Derren manipulated the audience into picking the number 4. Goodness knows how he made the dice land on 4 after that.

[ponddigger89]

He made the audience pick 4 when he said "you're going to do that for me", by pausing unnecessarily before, and then slightly overemphasising, the word "for". Presumably he got the audience to choose the number rather than just asking Wayne because that trick will work on the majority of people but not everyone, and he couldn't guarantee that it'd work on Wayne. Then maybe he palmed the dice and swapped it for a magnetised one, turning on an electromagnet under the platform upon the 3rd roll.

[MattMzansi]

No offense but I never loved a gay guy as much as I love Derren

[MassimoPiai]

@MattMzansi well, maybe john wayne

[plumberleyland]

The dice "must" have been loaded

[youFAILatLIFExD]

@plumberleyland I was thinking that as well, but it doesn't really explain why they managed to NOT land on four for the first two rolls.

[plumberleyland]

why would you even think this is faked? there's nothing truely amazing or un believable here, just entertaining

[fugazi0311]

I like that this episode was a lot more lighthearted than the last two. The first episode of this season was a total downer and the second episode was a bit of a cruel joke, but the guy took it well.

[notme222]

Why was Jason wearing the same shirt in every appearance? You'd think he could afford a bigger wardrobe.

[AdamWoodhams]

Lesbians, haha!

[Nemesis000000]

34:12 wtf is that english or chinese?

[fugazi0311]

@Nemesis000000 I think that's longhand. Like what court reporters write in.

[fugazi0311]

@Nemesis000000 Oops. I mean shorthand, not longhand.

[andrewxc1335]

@Nemesis000000 Shorthand.

[SittingOnEdgeman]

I was close.

Simplest explanation for how he fixed the dice roll- Mike was in on it. He sat down, talked with Mike off camera, told him the town would choose 4, and that the dice would be his dice, and that Wayne would put himself forward. He got Mike to agree not to talk, had the dice altered, either weighted or magnetized so that it would land on number 4- the bowl helped there because it would keep the dice going longer so it'd amplify any weighting.

Rest of it, I'm 99% sure, was real.

[Nemesis000000]

@SittingOnEdgeman That's what I thought until they went for 3 rolls and the first 2 were 2 and 6

[SittingOnEdgeman]

I'm at minute 35 right now... going to put on my predicting cap.

Wayne is going to have the winning bid. Derren has been manipulating him to push him forward. He's also, somehow, influenced him to pick a particular number on the die- and has weighted the dice toward that number, so that when it falls, it'll land on that number... maybe even put metal in there and a magnet under the table so that it's physically guaranteed to land there.

[KakynKhok]

３４：１０　ＷＴＦ　ｉｓ　ｔｈａｔ？

[RetroPuppetMaster]

@KakynKhok it is called stenography and it is a way to right down something very quick, journalists use it so they dont miss a thing during an interview

[KakynKhok]

@RetroPuppetMaster ｔｈａｎｋｓ．．．　ｉ　ｌｅａｒｎｔ　ｓｏｍｅｔｈｉｎｇ　ｔｏｄａｙ

[ScepticaTV]

As Mgalano pointed out - Derren didn't start this episode with the normal line, " There are no actors or stooges used in this show".

This together with the fact that from the very first drop Wayne and the audience are never shown in the same camera shot, makes me wonder how real it was.

Just because Derren "solves" the mysteries behind paranormal abilities does not mean he is real, keep that in mind people.

[andrewxc1335]

@ScepticaTV He also couldn't use that disclaimer, since he had used actors (his crew and the journalist).

[WayAboveYou700]

@ScepticaTV Come one, I thought better of you....

[andrewxc1335]

@ScepticaTV 41:14 - Shot shows the crowd and Wayne. I agree, a lot of Derren's stunts are just that: stunts or illusions. It's possible that he got the entire town in on a big conspiracy, but it seems like they would be likely to report anonymously any impropriety.

[Nutopian915]

@ScepticaTV You could always tweet and ask him.

[epona202]

@ScepticaTV He's always said that he uses psychology, misdirection, suggestion and showmanship to achieve his results. Really, I think part of the enjoyment is not knowing what is real and what isn't - when we start to scrutinise it too much I think we are in trouble, this episode in particular is just meant to be enjoyable, real or not.

[Beyonder2010]

@ScepticaTV

yes that's true, be aware of illusionists

[LtUnreal]

Also, if you look at 45:00 you can't see any audience in the top right off-stage...

[LtUnreal]

How do we know that the last part wasn't done at a separate time? You can't see or hear the audience when he makes the last drop. The video footage that's showing on the stage could be pre-recorded. This looks fake if you ask me.

[QIgorecki]

I love everything he does

very sweet isnt it

[biologyprodigy]

Anyone who gets on a Derren Brown show should consider themselves lucky.

[biologyprodigy]

That last dice roll looks a bit suspicious.

[waksibra]

fakest thing i ever saw. didn't expect this from derren.

[MrMacgeek1]

@waksibra Isn't fake. In one of Derren's book he said he would never use actors or camera tricks. He won't because you can't make someone keep a secret forever. Especially an entire town.

[waksibra]

@MrMacgeek1 I find it hard to believe that the dice thing at the end wasnt faked. The show would have been ruined if he didnt win.

[Nemesis000000]

@waksibra Not really. Have you seen "the system"? The girl at the end loses, but Derren gives her her money back and everyone learns a good lesson.

[andrewxc1335]

@Nemesis000000 No, she won at the end because Derren bought a different ticket than the one he said. He made her THINK she lost for a bit, though.

@waksibra The only one that Derren actually "lost" was The Events - How to Take Down a Casino, but if you watch the end, I'm pretty sure Derren is standing outside the trailer with a check for 10,000 pounds, rather than in a casino in mainland Europe, as he said (pretty sure it was staged so that he would lose (and be one space off)).

[JMartistry]

@MrMacgeek1 Bet you can't say the same thing about his Lottery Prediction. :)

[mrg00ddude]

@MrMacgeek1 LIKE HE SAID IN THE BEGINNING HE GOES TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET RESULTS ATLEAST THAT HOW I UNDERSTOOD IT

[mgalano]

Derren didn't start this episode with the normal line, " There are no actors or stooges used in this show".

[deareberheart127]

@mgalano That's because actors, namely the reporter Dawn, were used in order to convince the townspeople of the mythology of the lucky dog.

[waksibra]

we believe in bottom up luck, not top down luck. am i rite?

[JkBak]

This is the show from Derren Brown that i least enjoyed. I have watched all of what he has done. But maybe this is a message that he is going in another direction. In my opinion this kind of documentary doesn't suit Derren

[wybo2]

£1000= live savings of a 40-50 year old butcher? I smell bullshit!

[drunkasssteve]

Thanks for the upload, great episode.

[Melopeed]

That's amazing. I'm starting a lucky dog in my garden too

[myjizzureye]

11:32 Thats a vast expanse of woman.

[youarenotme123123]

wow.. full of suspense

[kedharf1]

"As soon as I got out of the car" ... What a fake!!

[FlourishDNA]

wow.. u r amazing :) put up more videos..