It is being claimed that Derren Brown correctly predicts National Lottery numbers
I am not so interested in how anybody displays the numbers on Ch4 after they have first been announced on the BBC.
However, I have watched the National Lottery draw live before. The numbers are announced as they drop one by one out of the drum. Then they are announced a second time in numerical order. A prediction requires a prior and not a post announcement. It has been said that there is a 14 million to one chance of winning the lottery, I wonder what the odds are of predicting them in numerical order? Perhaps Derren Brown might like to enlighten us how it is that his balls are in order? Cough!
Okay - Here's a tip! the numbers are regularly 'bunched' - ie for example 15th August 3 balls were exactly in sequence 46 - 47 - 48 or 21st March 1 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 36 - 38 - five out of 6 numbers in thirties. I don't conclude any conspiracy theory out of this, just that the mechanism for juggling the balls in imperfect and doesn't juggle them very well...
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