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  • 4:59

  • "My great uncle...Count Dracula" LOL

  • hehehehe just brilliant!

  • HOLY SHIT!! I FOR 62 and 35 as well :o

  • Well, I may have found the solution: that "Craig" guy is maybe DB's accomplice and a really good math student (even if he doesn't really look that smart lol) and simply adds up very fast the numbers the 2 other persons chose, then subtracts the result to the total. For instance, he knows he must add up to 10904, so if he sees that they have chosen 2347 and 654, he choses 7093 as the 3rd number, because 10904-2347-654 = 7093.

  • @FiatLux47

    youre right the craig guy must be in the show.

    You can see he's getting very excited when he comes to him and give him time to think, also he's get to pick the last number 2 times. the numbers where picked bef4 they started.

    Nice thinking

  • @FiatLux47 why the fuck make it that complicated? just make em ALL accomplices of the show as in every single "magic-tricks"-series on TV -.-

  • me and my friends tried it. Seems to only work on TV.

  • @TylerMontana Your friend was expecting it..

  • @TylerMontana Sorry, commented efore I watched the vid.. He was using sublimal messages.. if you see his hands you can guess the #

  • With the first one, I knew it would come out with a 6, because he was speaking the letters S and X loudly. Then I noticed he was repeating '2-digit number' more times than he needed to. When it came out as 62, because he did it in that order, I kind of expected it. But with the rest, I'm absolutely clueless. He's so good at neurolinguistics its amazing.

  • I dont get it.

  • apart from that, the fact that he will "guess" the sum and not the numbers one by one gives him some space and eligibility. either way its incredible

  • as far as the third number is concerned its expected to be either 24 or 69, cause brown is manipulating the guy in selecting 2 and 7 as the numbers digits by repeatedly referring to a 2-digit number and the slot machine (the only number among the pictures on classic slot machines being the 7). so the initial number is either 27(-3=24) or 72(-3=69) nevertheless the way he forces the order of the digits or the trics he uses to manipulate the first two in selecting theis numbers are not clear to me

  • @megalws yea thats what he does and he always says he maipulates their minds and doesnt actually read them

  • wowwowow

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  • hmm, after watching i was like "hey, i bet those numbers weren't already on the bridge," but then i went back and you can see them in the background throughout the video

  • that girl is cute. but her voice gives me a negative boner

  • he uses his fingers to subliminally persuade them to picking those #'s

  • it was his hands... he was subliminally telling them what numbers to pick

  • thats not english!

  • Omg what an ugly language o.o

  • that grey or craig guy looks like the guy on the subway

  • that chick has a funny accent

  • Hand Motions... he used subliminal hand motions to trigger them

  • HOLY CRAP! I SAID 24 JUST LIKE THE LAST GUY!! Now that's coincidence xD

  • @animaobli ME TOO! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!:))

  • @animaobli its because we can only see part of his hand motions, but the last person we could see the other hand better and (just like the volunteers) picked numbers "instinctually" but really influenced by his hands to pick a number quickly

  • @evilsandwich2 but the weird thing is, i had exactly the 27 in mind and after he said "take three off" i had 24....thats the number the third guy chose, too... i was stunned, couldnt believe that, i didnt even concentrate on him, i just was excited what he was going to do next...really crazy

  • @Dreazer i did the same thing freaked me out

  • @Rhadagast99 Being gay isn't a choice nor is it wrong.

  • @deathsrecon

    Believe it or not saying so just don't make your opinion so.

  • @Rhadagast99 Do you choose to be attracted to Women? When you were a child did you have erections for both Men and Women and just chose Women? I know I didn't choose to like Women, I just do.

  • I may be completely wrong but i think he is suggesting the numbers through the gestures of his hands, for example spinning his hands round a number of times. from 1:27, I'm assuming he spins his hands 7 times the first time, then spins his hand 2 times at 1:32 and then tells him to take 3 off.

    I'm just guessing but the number of times he spins his hands in the other section looks very specific. Its just a guess :P

    I love this guy!

  • @thykapow

    Or maybe he switched the card when it goes off the screen at the end.

  • @SadegoGG

    Or yeh it could be that hahah :P

  • ok the dead giveaway is when he asks "completely free choices those numbers" and everyone nods....

  • ok, I think this is what he is doing with exercises like this. He tells random volunteers they are supposed to think up a number, or word, or image themselves but hes really TELLING them what to think of. But the people think it was their own idea. Really he implants the thoughts without them knowing. Expert advertisers know how to do this as well, and make a person think it was their own decision to buy something when it was really implanted.

  • @rustyscrapper This trick can be done by having the last person as a plant.

  • @VenerableAtheist that's what I think too. The guy in the silver tee is the keystone who makes both tricks possible.

  • this gay is great, ops, I mean, this guy is great -- but gay fits to Derren too! with all respect he deserves.

    he is really, really great at what he does.

  • @ieBrazil Didn't I see you comment on other vids too that he's gay? So what? Little homophobia going on here?

  • no, noway blacksomething. I'm just kidding, really. You noe, it's the case that I found this info (his sexual orientation) by chance, reading on him at wikipedia, and I dont know, you know. Just made a pun using gay/guy words...

    plus, his 'gayness' does not make D.Brown more or less genious... he is one anyway and that's the point, you know.

    so take it easy, right? hail to the gret skeptic from England! (whish is not Dawkins)

  • haha i figured out he did it. Fucking genius.

  • i doubt it

  • @MrShorty95

    The second one was easy to figure out.

  • You just need an assistant that fix numbers and for the rest of the audience is magic....

  • yeah the 3rd guy;the one with the guy with the italia shirt

  • Hayley was cute =)

  • He gives them cues , when he is flashing his hands in front of their faces. He did something like that on a similar trick, he made the guy think of a bicycle. I'll have to find the video to be more specific.

  • @migraine516 it's called cold reading :)

  • Wait, nevermind, it was entirely different, I think XD.

  • I know I'll sound like I'm bullshitting, but I really did a trick like this for a project at school years ago. Or something similar.

  • If this guy was heterosexual, he would get a lot of pussy...

  • he is the gay thing was a joke... derren has a gf

  • Look him up in wikipedia. He came out in 2007

  • Her name is frank.

  • looool i died from this comment XD

  • @Tehui1974

    A lot of pussy would get him.

  • @Tehui1974 No problem. I guess with his abilities he can get a lot of dick too...

  • @Tehui1974 im sure he gets plenty of cock instead

  • @Tehui1974 instead he gets a lot of cock's x)

  • @Tehui1974 yea--what a waste 

  • @Tehui1974 He's gay!? Hot damn! My time to shine! :D

  • @Tehui1974 He might get alot of ass..

  • @Mortenen Or he could just convince the girls to get sex changes?

  • @Tehui1974 Oh no! he's gay? :( He's so cute!

  • @Tehui1974 seriously...is derren brown gay???

  • @Tehui1974 he get alto fo dicks right now

    he cna proabanbly make any of us slave if he wanted to

  • @Tehui1974 He's gay?

  • @chris96kalonji Yes he is

  • :) people are really so easy to manipulate.

  • before making stupid comments, you may want to educate yourselves. This is NLP and Derrin Brown is one of the best in this field. Read a book.

  • @bseated1 its not nlp....and in his book, derren says that he does not think that nlp works too well. just the basics are alright.

  • i'm calling bull-shit....i watched him and got 9017 for my number ...it's a scam

  • @EvanQuinn07 You also were not face to face with him.

  • where my great uncle, count dracula, first touched british soil in the shape of a big dog

  • pirate flags in the background win:D

    2:26

  • ..............................­...staged?

  • no its not staged, its the power of suggestion. check out from 2:46 onwards, he's emphasising the THIRD ONE! its giving the guy ideas.

    derren brown is amazing with this sort of stuff (:

  • Love the kid at 1:19 in the background. Otherwise, amazing video.

  • has anyone seen that movie "the number 23" with jim carrey, this is kinda like that

  • except that this is real

  • LOL

  • i had 122

  • holy crudovich i had 122 as well. 87 then 16 then 9

  • @foxxycleopaterra Saying your number on YT does nothing. You have to be face to face with him. This is the way he influences you, face to face with his words and actions.

  • i kinda don't care... was still fun to do at the time. no use sucking the joy outta the world

  • @FalloutMBO yea... i am painfully aware of this. alot of people have put their number..

  • kaylee gimme your number ill get u out of that town

  • il tipico pezzente che manipolatore che fa pazzare per miracoli quando e un trucco di magia!!!

  • the part in the beginning where he said that count dracula was his uncle..I have a very strong feeling about that, that that is indeed true.

  • i had 10911

  • they are not lying...the outcome of the trick is out of their control, since i performed this trick numerous times, it does not have anything to do with mind reading whatsoever! I could tell you how he did it, but that would ruin all the fun wouldn't it?

  • nlp is a farce, and derren has been proven to be a manipulator..of his audience. not the people in his videos. youre dumb.

  • does it involve the part where he asks to subtract 3? he could have said to subract any number and the result would be the same.

  • no...sorry

  • ok ive watched a few derren brown things before and am not a magician what so ever but send me a message or something if i got it right. it all had to do with the "slot machine" number he made them see. he was flashing fingers at them to represent the placement of the numbers he wanted and im faily certain the first guy with the orange shirt wrote down 4321. yes no maybe? or are you full of shit and don't know how he did it either?

  • hehe, ok since i got few emails about it, i will let you know this much...watch the last scene when the numbers are displayed on the bridge...now those numbers had to be prepared way before the show and his trick is going to start, so what is the LOGICAL answer on how did he know what numbers will audience choose??? please don't say mind reading!!

  • oh really?!...im not stupid man i know he influenced them one way or another to choose what he wanted i was wondering about the method he used. there wasn't anything cryptic in the way he spoke except fast enough and complicated enough for them not to decide their own numbers. It has be be the slot machine thing and the numbers he showed with his fingers right? i kind of doubt u actually do this trick though there are alot of complexities to pull it off without looking like a douche

  • Damn it, I have no idea! Probably a tiny little bit pre-show work or something... But come on guys, that's definately not entirely suggestion, hypnosis and NLP. Derren uses those terms to mislead people from the actual "secret".

  • Yep, it's the hands at least for part of it. That's why it's so important that they don't come up with numbers before he gets to them, and he had to "wipe" the last guy with random questions about himself that would distract him from "pre-picking" a number and put him at a loss for a last number and need one on the spot, when he's most susceptible to suggestion...

  • whenever you figure out a magic trick it takes all the fun out of it. because really its soooo simple and easy and youre like "oh"

  • WOAH. I was thinking 24, too!

  • yeah, it's the way he moves hands to suggest the numer ;]

  • it's all NLP guys XD suggestive acts, the hands, what he's saying... I've been trying to study about this, and I was getting a bit of the numbers he was "making them chose" ;p

    The power of manipulating our minds... brilliant Derren!

  • doubt it. 3 numbers added up and hes sure he has the right number? no this is some other trick imo.

  • I think they are stooges.

  • Amazing! Derren blows my mind every time! Love him <3

  • The solution is quite simple my dear Watson. I just havent figured it out yet.

  • Derren never uses stooges!!! He doesn´t need to! its really well executed and really great entertainment. Of course he´s a magician and tricks everyone in some way BUT he NEVER uses stooges or hired actors. that is only a stupid way to rationalize what you don´t understand...

  • Cor! Indascribable. Astronomical odds, that.

  • the 1st time with the 2digit numbers, he let them pick any number then added up the numbers in his head. consequently for the last guy, he made sure that the last guy came up with a number that added up to a total of 121. (he actually suggested through hand gestures and "-3" to lead him)

    in the 2nd time, he LED them to pick specific numbers through eye contact and his hand gestures, suggesting numbers to their subconscious mind.

    its all REAL psychology! hynopsis. derren brown's a genius.

  • i agree with you! he is very smart.

  • it makes me laugh, all these comments, this is bullshit etc. you are watching a freaking performer who clearly states at the start of each show that it is a combination of things. at no point does he claim to have special powers. if you are watching a magic show or alike and dont understand that it isnt real, you have some serious freaking issues. ah, youtube posters...

  • No, sorry. I won't think of a 2 because the guy's hand shows a 2.

    That's the most idiotic I've ever heard.

  • @samus88 Youre the most idiotic thing. NLP uses the subconcious mind. You cant control or access the information in teh subconcious, yet it influences your decisions. This is what Derren uses. Your concious mind wouldnt pay attention to his hand, yet your subconcious picks the information up and influences your decisions, without you ever knowing it. Once again, youre the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

  • If you're dumb enough to believe this guy and or actually fall for his "powers" if they were actually true, that's you're thing, but I don't.

    It's all fake.

  • Because just like pschycology, this BS runs on the premise that every single mind and person is the same way .

    This "suggestions" you people claim Brown does, don't work on me. The guy shows a two with his hand and I'm gonna think of the number 2? Wtf, no I'm not. The same with that video of the guy making people "forget" the station they were going... complete and utter bullshit.

  • Psychology doesn't run by that premise, neither NLP.

  • I'm a psychology major. I learned in every single class that humans are all different from one another and what works on one human might not work on another human. So relax. I will say that when you are tired/stressed, you are more likely to be "tricked."

  • Also, keep in mind that not everyone is into mentalism and stuff like that. A lot of people won't even realize that they are being tricked.

  • You are lying. You do not have a degree in psychology. It is apparent because you don't have any idea what you are talking about.

  • Much of it is bullshit... But the mind works in a certain way and nearly all people have certain hardwiring which mentalism relies on. The suggestions will work on you in person, I promise, unless you are a very unique person. Most of the suggestions he gives are things your mind picks up on without you consciously knowing. But sometimes the power of unconscious suggestion will not work if the participant is unwilling, such as yourself. The things Brown does are real.

  • So what subliminal messages is he using there?

    Like that's just crazy.

  • "This week we're in Whitby on the North East coast, where my great uncle, Count Dracula, first touched British soil in the shape of a big dog." Hahahaha!!!!

  • :/ It's still hard to believe this guy ever since I saw him knock out a guy without touching him...

  • He did this to make sure he was influenced by his suggestions. As he was the last person, the digits had to add up to the right number.

  • If you knew anything about Darren Brown you would know sligthly how he does this...

    Dont make the mistake beleiving you can't get "tricked" by Derren, even though how "diffrently" you may think.. As he does not need to rely on statistics.

    He uses a variety of NLP, Hypnosis, Anchoring, Cold Reading etc to perform his acts.

  • if you look the numbers are up there all along, i think its set up to tell you the truth,i mean he must have known that to know what numbers to put up there in there in the first place.

  • really gay.

  • of course it's a trick, but it's not with actors. he uses psychological tricks.

  • He's using a Jedi MIND trick!! lol

    -AHMAD

  • I can't believe people actually fall for this BS.

  • fall for what?

  • This BS.

  • It's a trick.

  • Really? Oh, man. I can't believe I didn't realize...

    You didn't get my post, did you?

    I meant that I don't understand why peopl fall for this "mentalism" stuff. It's fake. All those explanations that the guys suggests them the numbers with his hands... gee.

    It's a trick, of course it is. ;)

  • They fall for this mentalism stuff because they don't know much about it. I don't know much about it myself but I know the guy isn't using magic or anything. Because of my ignorance, I would fall for these tricks to, but I would know that it's JUST a trick that I don't understand.

  • no shit sherlock

  • Exactly. How can people watch this on youtube and not suspect actors.

    People want to believe so bad.

  • Ever heard of mentalism? Yeah, there are ways for people to get information out of you without you knowing it. It has nothing to do with "wanting to believe." Magicians do stuff like this all the time.

  • Lol - yeah, and the actors who say that they were hired to pretend not to be actors are just lying out of spite.

    Do some googling, young one.

  • Easiest would be to simply have the guy at the end of the line be in on it and be good with numbers.

  • at 3:52 you can clearly see he has 2 cards in his hand

  • Watch the video again, He says he is going to hand the guy a "stack" of cards and a pen...

  • did you even listen?

  • For the second trick he switches the cards around when he goes to give it to the girl to add them together. The reason he gives it to that girl is because she didn't write down any numbers and therefore doesn't know what the three people actually wrote down (the reason for him asking them to not say their numbers out loud). As for the first one, no idea :)

  • nope, not really. If you look again (round 3:58 ) then you can see that the other 3 people can see the paper too. They had to check if the girl did it right. If mr. Brown would've given her a other note with numbers, they would probably have noticed.

  • very impressive trick then :)

    if no ones in on it

  • he coulda done that, but derren told them all the check the paper himself..so i guess he wanted them all to see that its the same paper.

  • yeah that is almost a great sales tool for Derren Brown shows. Just knowing that he doesnt mind people knowing that he has failed alot of his tricks isnt a bad thing. At least he admits it. Guys like Chris Angel and Copperfield would NEver admit thier magical failures. Imagine David Blains Street magic failures, im sure there are heaps of them that they didnt show.

  • This is what magic needs to turn back to. People now are only talking about what tricks a person does, like Criss Angel levitating and such. It SHOULD be people talking about the person himself, what he was like. When it comes to Penn and Teller the first thing I think about is Penns brightness and talkativeness and Tellers silence, not any particular trick. Its the same with Darren Brown.

  • I'm telling you. Derren Brown only broadcasts his succelful tricks - and he has failed. A LOT of times!

  • Like everyone , no one is perfect

  • Yeah, but he also does live shows

  • he broadcasted some failed tricks, the one when hes on a train and made ppl forget their stop. he failed on that one

  • Watch his hands when hes talking to the participants when they need to think of a number and process it. you can see it very clearly. hes using NLP and Suggestive technicues.

  • well he's obviously not psychic, ofcourse he uses tricks, to hypnotize people, but he's bloody good at it, and subtle too. Shame on you for trying to make him look like a fool.

    Thumbs Down Noobtard.

  • On the conterary, i think hes brilliant.

    I was just telling what hes doing, because a lot of people think that hes really a psychic or uses some mystical powers.

    And i would really reccomend to everyone who is interested in Derren Brown and how he does this, to read his book- Derren Brown- Tricks of the mind.

    Theres a lot of info about hypnosis, NLP, thinking traps, and how human mind works.

    And as I said, hes brilliant, and to think that he learned this all by himself.... amazing

  • Only 3 of them picked numbers lol

  • The only thing I can add to observations, apart from the stooge is that at the end, the other fellow says "It's amazing the THREE of us can come up with THREE different numbers..." Yet there are four people. I do not know what to make of it exactly though.

  • whats your point? only three picked numbers and they added them together, what is it you dont understand? the lady to the left didnt participate in that one

  • the first girl didnt write down a number she only added the three numbers up.

  • Well, the guy in orange "checked" the addition, so unless he is an actor, I don't see how he could get away with switching envelopes.

  • its not real, the last guy is a real maths whiz, but its not hard to get a number n subtract 2 numbers to get a reamining number

  • yeah quite obvious the guy in the italia shirt is in on it must be good at math and can easily manipulate the Sum of the other 3

  • My guess is that the Italia shirt guy is a stooge - he was always last, so if he knew what's inside the envelopes he could just "think of" the number needed to add up to it.

    The other guys are legit.

    That's just my guess ... :)

  • Except that on the 4 digit number the girl is still holding the paper so h