Trick of the Mind Series 1 - Episode 1, Fingers

[Crimewave9]

Anyone notice that at 1:37 his gloves are on but a second later it's off?

lol This derren!

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

I can't see this video anymore in the UK :(

[mentalistlance]

I myself am a mentalist.. I know how to read body language and can guess when people are lying to me.. Let, me tell you Derren is very good, I cannot come up with a method.. This effect is one of my favorites because of it's pure look.. Awesomeness A+++

[philippschuetz]

@mentalistlance

He paints the number in the air. Watch the other "fingers" episode in episode two. He paints the number three in the air.

[YuneShik]

his gloves disappeared because they usually edit the footage to make it less as much as they can.

[YuneShik]

it's MIND BUGGLIGN!

[Crimewave9]

omg i found at 0:26 he puts 1 thumb and his whole hand on the other hand.

that means 6 fingers! :D

its hard to see but i think its it... :)

thumbs up if you like it!

[wogelberg]

the girl is just wasting time. such a sissy. he must be used to harder touches..:D

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

@wogelberg What does that mean?! Wasting time!?

[wogelberg]

@LaurenElisaJackson1 Ohh, you soo want him to touch you in naughty places..:P

[magyardzsentri]

its in derren's sentences. look at it, he uses lots of alliterations in his sentences with the certain numbers' starting letter before each try, and by this is suggesting to choose that

[ieBrazil]

@magyardzsentri according to Lauren, though, she's just putting her phone numbers out. Just it.

So, your hypothesis is no longer a real explanation...

But also Lauren (see her post above) could be lying here...

[rosieavfc82]

how is this done? anyone

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

and even if he did say 'it' hinting that he was holding up one finger, it was still the next number of my home telephone number, so how did he know that?!

[JusBlazeDR]

@LaurenElisaJackson1 your kindda hot lol

[antipul446]

Fuck you liar it is me in the video and we had sex last night with your mum.

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

@antipul446 Twat.

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

This is me in the video from years ago! The number is my home phone number without the region code at the beginning and he had no way of knowing it, and I am certainly not his 'bitch'! he came up to me in the street! I honestly don't know how he did it, he is very talented!

[alexshort14]

thats awesome, lauren im guessing?, im from across the pond but i cannot get enough of derren browns magic. We have nobody like him in our country, its fantastic stuff. Congrats on meeting him!

[SkatinatorS]

Oh god you are a lucky one. I can only wish to meet him. His techniques have always intrigued me.

[Averagebum2]

@LaurenElisaJackson1 Gosh, you are pretty! This is why I'd like to move to England.

[philippschuetz]

@LaurenElisaJackson1

You're a liar.

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

@philippschuetz Erm. No I'm not.

[philippschuetz]

@LaurenElisaJackson1

Wow that took a while.

I found out how he did it. He used the same trick for reading a pin number from a guys eyes.

He counts the number nods someone makes. It's very subtle.

[crackeddoutt]

@LaurenElisaJackson1 You're hot.

[Crimewave9]

i just got how he guesses in pockets

he just have to say it's 4

then she'll put four

that is he got her in trance already

[alexshort14]

absolutely zero NLP techniques are applied in this video, so sorry, no trance here

[nathanlulu]

nlp is not proven in any form anyweay and a real trance state just doesnt happen,probably suggestion is how this works

[hellokittygirl6]

thats really weird for me because while i was watching it i was thinking what fingers i'd put up myself and for the first two i thought of 6. how weird is that?

[WeLiveOnline]

He asks her for her name, "Lauren", having the name said twice is enough to make her think of her name and automatically come up with the numbers of letters in the name, being 6. This is how I think he did the first 1 xD

[CookieMonzta1995]

lol he actually guessed the first one wrong he said 6 fingers but she was holding up 5 fingers and a THUMB! XD

[emskiness]

erm i think ur being a little too pedantic dude *rolls eyes*

[CookieMonzta1995]

lol :) well in all technicallity its true lol wtf! :S

[ThinkingWithPortals]

@CookieMonzta1995

If you're not counting thumbs as fingers, then she was only holding up 4...

[CookieMonzta1995]

yeh I know lol i was just being a bit of a dick at the time :)

[ErasmusIII]

Is it proper in Britain for a 30+ yr old man to kiss some teenager on the cheeks?

[Lonestarr1337]

Uhh... Yes?

It's a kind gesture.

[the5h4rk]

haha

[rockbloodyon]

If we look at British tradition, he's being more gentlemanly than most of the population.

[Crexu]

Well he was just being polite..

[Maverician]

It's proper everywhere.

Particularly when the man is gay, there is less of a thought-issue, but simply put, it proper anywhere where it is a greeting and farewell action (which it now is in Britain).

[RagdollPhysics]

yep.

[LaurenElisaJackson1]

@ErasmusIII Yes it is. He's not a perv is being polite.

[gyag03]

"now let me do ONE behind my back ill try and do the next ONE" 1:31 he is a genius

[pgr2592]

Also says can you see 'IT'...

[keyar87]

My guess is that he did it in the same way as he did the coin trick (10 of the same in a row). He probably just did this for 3 hours or so until he got it right.

[Dinglezero]

howd he guess the 1st one??

[lipgloss675411]

body language in the eyes and mouth and stuff.

[rish000]

hahah sum kid in the crowd is tryin to put a sublimimal msg.. at 1:24 a kid says "Ta mere" in french which means 'your mom"

[splendorfulguris]

stupid idiots the girl is his bitch

[Maddoxhardcore]

he's gay...

[kintay17]

Why the thumbs down? It's true, he's gay, and that's fine.

[DarkPhoenix777]

between the 1st and 2nd predictions 0:44

"do the same thing again" rofl

[philippschuetz]

@DarkPhoenix777

"...and again, neither of us can see in there..."

[yeahimseann]

all bullshit

[ShadowSaberX]

Smart use of words...

[zelda1ftw1imo]

Wow that's amazing,someone explain

[lopytube]

"now Iam gonna do it again" ....amazingly simple

[rsaini1]

the girl is cute.

[MyUmbrellaAcademy]

so everyone is explaining how he got her to guess correctly. can anyone tell me how he knew or influenced her to pick how many fingers SHE held up so that he could guess correctly?

plznthx! :]

[w0bbl3r]

he said "now im gonna do one, behind my back".

easy if you think about it

[1Ridd3r]

He suggests to her he will hold up 1 finger by saying "right let me do ONE behind my back ill do ONE". Asking them if they can see it doesnt really give anything away.

[leoleoleoleo]

can you see "it"

clever use of words there :)

[MagicMaddy]

See what?

[leoleoleoleo]

derren virually tells her that he has one finger up by asking members of the crowd if "they can see it"

well obviously it's one, otherwise he would have said "can you see them"

do you see?

[SemiColon81]

I was taking it to mean "Can you see [the number of fingers]" which would be referred to as 'it'. It may still be leading her, though.

[Cruelshadows5252]

His gloves disappear @ 1:35-1:40... Yet another trick!!!

[Urbanus1337]

Idd, I wonder how that can be explained

[DjifixAnime]

I gess he pulled em off?

[sheajsheaj]

at about 1:37 you can see him start to take them off