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Coin Game \ Magic Trick \ Maths: The Penney Ante Part 2 (Re: Derren Brown: How to Win the Lottery)


Penney Ante is a coin game devised in 1969 by a mathematician called Walter Penney. In it, two players predict three coin tosses. The prediction that appears first in a run of coin tosses wins. This should be a fair game. However, if Player 2 makes his prediction after Player 1, he can use mathematics and probability to increase his chances of winning. On Wednesday 9th of September 2009 (09-09-09) UK magician Derren Brown predicted the national lottery numbers on live TV. The following Friday he explained how he did it. This included a demonstration of the Penney Ante. For further reading see www.combinatorics.org

Coin Game \ Magic Trick \ Maths: The Penney Ante Part 1 (Re: Derren Brown: How to Win the Lottery)


Penney Ante is a coin game devised in 1969 by a mathematician called Walter Penney. In it, two players predict three coin tosses. The prediction that appears first in a run of coin tosses wins. This should be a fair game. However, if Player 2 makes his prediction after Player 1, he can use mathematics and probability to increase his chances of winning. On Wednesday 9th of September 2009 (09-09-09) UK magician Derren Brown predicted the national lottery numbers on live TV. The following Friday he explained how he did it. This included a demonstration of the Penney Ante. For further reading see www.combinatorics.org

Derren Brown’s lottery explained


www.pubtricks.com will explain Derren Brown’s lottery prediction before the reveal on Friday the 10th of Sept 2009. We think we have the best solution to Derren Brown’s lottery trick online. The video has captions all the way through taking you through the trick step by step. Please comment and let me know if you agree with my thoughts and if you think I’m right please rate the video.

Derren Brown – Predicts Lottery Numbers LIVE!


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Derren Brown Predicts Lottery Correctly – 9th September 2009


Full 10 minute show of derren brown predicting the lottery. How did he do it?! Split screen?

Derren Brown The Event – Lottery Prediction


Derren Brown predicts the lottery live on air

derren brown’s lottery trick – possible solution


this might not be how he did it, but its how I would have. Having now seen derren’s bullshit explanation I can conclude that since he had no intention of revealing the truth he would have no qualms about using the simplest method available, which is the one I illustrated. The ‘misdirection’ in this case was to con everyone into sitting through an hour of his drivel in the hope of getting a remotely believable answer. More media-manipulation than mind-manipulation