OK, this should be the last post about how Derren Brown’s lottery trick was done!
I think we’ve given enough publicity and space over to Mr Brown.
And apart from which Derren fans will shortly all be moving on to talking about how he made them feel stuck to their sofa..! (Control The Nation hits tonight… and I very much suspect he hasn’t just bought a job lot of superglue)
The Trick Explained
So, here’s a great little video that demonstrates the secrets of how the whole split screen camera trick thing works. For anyone still not sure, yes, it was just a trick:-
Watch Closely, See The Trick Revealed…
And if you found that a bit of a let down after all the build up of the ‘predicting lottery numbers’ malarkey, then this alternative explanation should give you some minor chuckle relief:-
[P.S. If you want to know how Derren does his crazy mind trick voodoo check out this video]
Derren sadly disappointed on this one – his ‘How To Win The Lottery’ show actually failed to deliver on the fundamental promise made earlier in the week.
He entertained as usual – the guy is a great showman – but he didn’t actually tell us how the trick was done. All was NOT revealed. Which is fine. Except that is exactly what we were promised!
He did of course misdirect and entertain, which is the nature and fun of the show.
Derren tells a small group of people they can predict lottery numbers, and they become genuinely impressed at being ‘one out’. Being one out is also known as being wrong of course. Nobody wins a prize for nearly matching a number! (But even letting them get ‘close’ is pure Derren at work of course)
The important facts to remember are:-
Derren is not a psychic or mystic (he actually debunks people who claim to be!)
Derren cannot predict lottery results, it’s simply not possible.
It’s a trick, that’s what he does.
Derren ended the show as ‘whatever you choose to believe is up to you’, but we were cheated on the promise of him giving us the real answer. And that was an unusually flat and diasappointing ending to the illusion.
There was no ‘reveal’ and then further twist to leave us confounded and impressed.
Instead we’re simply left with the reality of ‘oh, so it was just a cheap camera trick then’.
Shame.
[P.S. If you want to know more about how Derren does his crazy mind voodoo check out this video]
It has now been confirmed that the EuroMillions draw on 8 May 2009 did result in the single biggest jackpot winner ever.
And not just the biggest jackpot ever for the EuroMillions – but the biggest jackpot in the world won by one single winner.
So Who Won?
That winner has been revealed as a 25 year old woman living in Majorca, who is now about €126 Million richer. Her name has not been revealed (and very wise too – folks, when you win big decline the publicity unless you want your life to become a complete circus!).
It’s a real shame that money wasn’t split over lots of different winners. After all, what can you do with €126 Million that you can’t do with €10 Million?!
Although according to the UK Telegraph newspaper, it does make her instantly richer than the Bee Gees!
Winning Numbers
Those winning EuroMillions numbers were 4, 29, 23, 31, 24 and Lucky Stars 9 and 8.
EuroMillions fever hits again as last weeks huge jackpot rolled over again.
This Friday (8th May) sees the jackpot reach an enormous 123 Million Euros. The third largest in the history of EuroMillions.
Ticket sales will reach FOUR times a normal week for EuroMillions, with peaks of up to two and a half million tickets an hour.
World’s Biggest Lottery Winner?
If one winner were to scoop the jackpot, they would instantly go down in history as the biggest lottery winner in the world.
Previous huge jackpots have (thankfully) been shared between multiple winners. After all, nobody really needs 123 Million to themselves, do they!?
Share The Pot Of Gold
Imagine 123 jackpot winners all taking home a million each. Or how about 23 individual winners plus 2 lottery syndicates of 50 people each. Everybody gets a million. Better?
But if you want to play, don’t wait, those lottery terminals will be crazy busy closer to the draw time.
OK, this should be the last post about how Derren Brown’s lottery trick was done!
Derren sadly disappointed on this one – his ‘How To Win The Lottery’ show actually failed to deliver on the fundamental promise made earlier in the week.
On Wednesday night Derren Brown predicted all 6 of the UK Lotto numbers live on TV.
It has now been confirmed that the EuroMillions draw on 8 May 2009 did result in the single biggest jackpot winner ever.
EuroMillions fever hits again as last weeks huge jackpot rolled over again.
