Derren Brown

[Tingles]

That was underwhelming.

I know how he did it!

[Moscow Mule]

I know how he did it!

Well done.

[Zippy]

I know how he did it!

Bugger! I got distracted - what happened? He got the numbers right and ...

[FiveTimes]

I know how he did it!

go on then do tell

[jmo21]

someone reckoned it was given away how he did it in the preamble, but I didn't spot it.

quite impressive to watch!

[Tingles]

I know how he did it!

Obvious!

He's in league with the horned one (richard branson)

He told him the numbers......

[d000hg]

I liked how he seemed (or acted) really nervous. Obviously some trickery so I'll guess it was an act, but it was done well.

Getting all 6 makes it even more obvious it's a fake... if he got 4 or 5 it would look more believable.

Didn't like how his numbers weren't shown till afterwards. With TV, you can fake that kind of thing. Legally he said BBC have rights to show the result first but he can show his prediction whenever he wants, right?

Does anyone really have a solid idea how it worked? Saying "I knew it was like that" afterwards doesn't score you many points

[VectraMan]

Didn't like how his numbers weren't shown till afterwards. With TV, you can fake that kind of thing. Legally he said BBC have rights to show the result first but he can show his prediction whenever he wants, right?

Does anyone really have a solid idea how it worked? Saying "I knew it was like that" afterwards doesn't score you many points

So he didn't reveal the numbers until afterwards? And you have to think about how it was done?

I did watch a bit of last night's show, and as usual he pretends he's doing all these psychological tricks but everything I saw could be easily explained by the "selected at random" audience members being plants. Which is almost certainly how its done.

Paul Daniels was more convincing.

[sasguru]

As he revealed the numbers AFTER the BBC, clearly he had a had a live feed in his ear and a mechanism that allowed him to set those numbers up.

Simples.

[TimberWolf]

I liked how he seemed (or acted) really nervous. Obviously some trickery so I'll guess it was an act, but it was done well.

Getting all 6 makes it even more obvious it's a fake... if he got 4 or 5 it would look more believable.

Didn't like how his numbers weren't shown till afterwards. With TV, you can fake that kind of thing. Legally he said BBC have rights to show the result first but he can show his prediction whenever he wants, right?

Does anyone really have a solid idea how it worked? Saying "I knew it was like that" afterwards doesn't score you many points

I said "I knew it was like that" before the event:

a standard conjuring trick of making people believe the correct numbers had been picked before the show - but crucially not shown to be correct until after the draw.

The trick is making people believe that the balls are picked correctly before the draw. The reason he gave for not showing them beforehand being for "legal reasons" or some-such guff. I don't recall his words but he must stray close to lying. The mechanics of how he gets the numbers on the balls after the draw and before showing them could be anything, but the key misdirection is as I said.