(255) Predicting the National Lottery numbers

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A codicil to Entry (6)
http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/6-shambolic-wogans-winner-pennies.html
happened in September 2009.
Derren Brown performed a TV stunt in which he appeared to have predicted the 6 balls drawn in the National Lottery. I contributed to various threads about it at the guardian.co.uk Comment Is Free site.
One, by Vicky Frost, invited readers to vote on how he could have pulled it off.
I chipped in with a post which became, at 16 Sep 09, 11:01pm, the penultimate -

Vote: How did Derren Brown do it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/poll/2009/sep/10/derren-brown-television?commentid=a90557e8-53e7-42f9-857c-988eb9899cb1
Quite late on September 9th I posted at Vicky Frost´s CiF piece of September 7th re Derren Brown´s staking his career on predicting the lottery.

I pointed out that it had been done before and gave a link to Entry 6 at my Blog. The number of hits the Blog got that day was over 1400. It was averaging less than 100.

Also on September 9th James Meikle posted one of several other CiF articles about Brown´s attempt to predict the lottery later that day. He indeed mentions there that Paul Daniels advocated Brown deliberately getting one number wrong, perhaps to add verisimilitude.

Mine was one of the last comments, and on September 11th -
JamesPlaskett 11 Sep 09, 4:06pm
Camelot said in a statement. "It is impossible to affect the outcome of the draw and Derren Brown is not suggesting he is doing this."

 But of course it is impossible!
Makes you wonder why Camelot took legal action to try to prevent Paul McKenna from doing that. 
Doesn´t it?

http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/6-shambolic-wogans-winner-pennies.html

Also, after McKenna´s psychokinesis experiment made 3 of the 7 "willed" balls manifest - an event with odds of about 2.8% chance of happening - they immediately changed the lottery rules so that getting 3 of the 6 balls did not automatically guarantee a ten pounds prize.

I wonder why?

"It is impossible to affect the outcome of the draw..."
Still, just in case....

I have made some similar comments about the 1996 McKenna psychokinesis experiment at other CiF threads anent Brown´s stunt.
The number of hits on my blog on Sep 10th was almost 8,000.

Now see what else happened that day -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8259801.stm

Note that Brown´s "Prediction" happened on September 9th. The "revelation" happened on C4 on September 11th.
The Bulgarian real life 4.2 million to one replication of the six numbers occurred on September 10th, i.e. in between Derren´s "miracLe" and his "explanation".
Three of the numbers also appeared in the September 13 draw.
An unprecedented 18 people guessed all six numbers when they were drawn the second time on September 10. The winners each get 10,164 leva (5,197 euros).
In the first draw on September 6, nobody got all six numbers right.

Those were -
2 11 23 28 35 39

Now THAT´s MAGIC!

Would you Adam and Eve it!?

http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/147-who-still-wants-to-be-millionaire.html
... ... ...
In fact the odds on those same six numbers of the forty-two used in the Bulgarian draw reappearing were considerably higher still: 5,245,786 to one in fact.
And that is without even taking into account the chances of Mr Brown´s "magical prediction" coinciding with the recurrence.

McKenna´s psychokinetic experiment was designed to test whether a concentration of focused minds could will the lottery outcome, just like Wogan´s earlier attempt to marshall mental power. On the day of Brown´s "prediction", September 9th 2009, this blog got over 1400 hits. On the following day, September 10th 2009, when the same numbers were drawn again in the National Lottery of Bulgaria, it received 7851. Almost all hits on both days were from the Guardian threads directly to Entry (6).

If you´re still sceptical about group mind possibly influencing lottery numbers, please consider -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344539/How-26-000-fans-Lost-actually-WON-copying-lottery-numbers-used-TV-series-cash-Mega-Millions-draw.html

Comments

Unknown said…
I still dont get how he could have predicted the lottery results. Truly amazing.
9:19 pm
lagent said…
That really awesome.I also try to predict some number for my
lottery tickets but failed.How they can do it??
3:07 am
Unknown said…
Well its such a amazing post. I want to get win my lottery but not conformed that which date announced this winner.

free lotto
12:52 am
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