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Uploaded by on Dec 31, 2006

Mentalist Derren Brown does his impression of rainman by counting moving buttons on a tray in seconds.

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  • the buttons are colored. look at the dark blue ones. its the law of average. they are well mixed. 1 blue one for every 10 buttons. so 7 blue ones is 70, then a few more than that. you can count that in a flash. then just train to work out where within 10 the buttons are. I think anyway.

  • Well, if it was me I would put some sort of weight sensor into the table - notice that it's easy with this kind of table, you have to check what is the weight of table after she covers the table. Do the math and voila.

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  • @TheWasteProject ooooo smart

  • @TheWasteProject JUST train?

  • @mtoh81 yeah I was going to say the same thing. Scale in the table with a transmitter going to him. Oftentimes people will take making a mistake to make it seem more real.

    The fact that the helper has to hold the tray instead of keeping it on the table makes this quite a likely scenario.

  • The slap moves the buttons into one bulk to one side, the board has lines and dots on it so measurements are possible which you can clearly see at 3:13, finally its just quick calculation as well- it's a difficult trick.

  • Derren claims he never uses "plants". He has his own techniques for sure. Re. "slowing down time" there was a famous female pianist who claimed to be able to do this when sight-reading difficult music.

    Or perhaps he begins with a guesstimate, as he seems to continue counting the buttons for a several seconds after his initial prediction. He knows the area of the tray and the size of the buttons. Surely with enough practices, he could tell at a glance 50+ from 70+...

  • @TheWasteProject if u watch some of his other videos he sais he can slow down time and take photo memorys he just done that i recon

  • 4:43 hahaha no way her face.. she hit him hard

  • @purpleblake LOL !!!

  • @MeandmagiC ...ugh...

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