How to Win the Lottery, Event 1-1/2 - The Events, Derren Brown - Channel 4

How to Win the Lottery, Event 1 - The Events, Derren Brown - Channel 4

The first show, appeared to show Derren Brown predicting that night's lottery draw. This was conducted by a set of white balls lined up, facing a wall, next to a television displaying a live feed from BBC One as they aired the live draw. After the draw, Brown wrote the results on a piece of card prior to turning the white balls around, facing the camera, to reveal that both the numbers on the balls and the numbers on the card were the same. The winning numbers were: 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39. The bonus was number 15, however, his predictions did not include the bonus ball. If the numbers were chosen at random, there would be a 1 in 13,983,816 chance of predicting all 6 numbers correctly.

A show aired, which stated three possibilities for winning the lottery. The first, faking a winning ticket, was quickly dismissed, and the majority of the programme described Brown's use of automatic writing and crowd psychology to appear to predict the numbers ahead of time. Through a series of experiments and attempts at explaining complex psychology, while avoiding the underlying maths, Brown suggested that he may have predicted numbers using a phenomenon known as the "Wisdom of Crowds". He revealed 24 volunteers who, after a number of previous sessions, were shown to apparently predict the correct numbers by perusing a board filled with previous lottery numbers and guessing that week's through automatic writing. The show concluded with a brief description of how the lottery results could have been rigged, with Brown firmly stating that this would have been illegal and that he would always claim the stunt was simply a trick.

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[SHOOTINGUNIVERSE]

Thanx i watched this and became a millinaire!

[BensTunes101]

Ha! Awesome x)

[orladavey11]

thanks so much for putting this up,but you should put no copyright intended on the video because channel 4 will take it down.

[bluedrangon69]

Rigged

[filek1011]

split-screen IMHO.

[i8hy6e3]

I would think about things that make the world more easy and convenient than lottery. what the waste of life. humanity is more important than money. look at the sky and universe. this universe is already very huge. if this universe is very small, human being would be alone. but this universe is already too huge.

[Greyhound1405]

Where is the how he did it prog?

[PeymonADLDOUSTI]

good one