Well, it was a very slickly executed split-screen camera trick, is my interpretation. (And the legal excuse about not being able to show his prediction before Camelot/the BBC announced the lottery result was rubbish. He wouldn't have been announcing any "results" legally - he would have simply been listing 6 numbers.) It was well done though. 
Yeah that wasn't as exciting as it could have been!
Oh well, we'll see how he did it on Friday. Think it will be something a bit more interesting and complicated than split screen though. Too simple.
Did no'one spot that guy behind the numbers with the felt tip pen?
I think we're all hypnotised.
Quote: zooo @ September 9 2009, 10:52 PM BSTOh well, we'll see how he did it on Friday. Think it will be something a bit more interesting and complicated than split screen though. Too simple.
Simple is reliable though.
Yeah but he's not that borrring!
Maybe it was invisible ink jet printing that can be done from 30 feet away.
It definitely includes some form of optical illusion. Notice how he hardly moves a muscle whilst the draw is being made. Only afterwards does he write the numbers on his bit of card. There is some reason he is unnaturally still during this time.
Maybe he can genuinely predict numbers. He has done it in his shows everytime, why would it be any different with the lottery. It's just numbers to him.
Because the probabilities against a correct prediction are roughly 14 million to 1. It's not the same as predicting numbers based on human psychology or facial "shows", or anything concerning far smaller degrees of probability. There is no pattern to base a prediction on and no way to predict 6 random numbers between 1 - 49 with any likely chance of success.
He has said the tricks are based on misdirection this series.
Quote: zooo @ September 9 2009, 11:09 PM BSTHe has said the tricks are based on misdirection this series.
Is he using Tom-Tom?
Quote: zooo @ September 9 2009, 11:09 PM BSTHe has said the tricks are based on misdirection this series.
Which itself may be a piece of misdirection.
In his shows, beforehand he will write down pivital things that will happen in the show and put it infront of everyone before the show in a scroll, and reveals it at the end. It will quote everything that happened. Things that would equate to be more than 14 million to 1.
Yes, I understand that is near impossible to predict, but he does these things time after time.
He is either a massive fake or the antichrist. As the bible predicts in revelation- nations will turn on one another, terrible natural disastors, religious war and the antichrist will roam the earth.
Shit. I've just found a pound under the sofa.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 9 2009, 11:14 PM BSTWhich itself may be a piece of misdirection.
Ooh!
If you read things like his book, Scotti, you'll realise that all his stunts are just brilliantly executed tricks combining psychology, mathematics, illusion, suggestion/hypnosis and diversion. In the shows where he predicts events, he is able to script the events which occur and then use these skills to ensure an outcome. Impossible to set an outcome to a truly random event.
And I think the Antichrist would choose to appear on BBC Three rather than C4.