Damn You Derren!

I suppose it was to be expected but I was perhaps hoping for something a bit more plausible than crowd theory and getting 24 random people to predict it for him. It was an entertaining hour nonetheless and at one point I was almost convinced that the 24 people had a chance of actually predicting the numbers. The only thing that convinces me that the whole thing is a sham is that at no point did he reveal to anyone the prediction before the draw. This is a pretty important fact as it makes the difference between prediction and stunt.

He could easily have locked it in a safe or something and then revealed it to that group after the live draw but we didn't even get to see the calculations the group made or any of the automatic writing they produced. This suggests that what they wrote is likely to be completely random and he probably calculated the previous results and influenced their decisions. It also seems far too coincidental that the set before the live draw were predicted in exactly the right order bar the first two that were very close, did he have to swap digits on the night? Who knows.

It might be nice to form a group of 20 or so people and attempt to predict the Euromillions though, the advert came on during one of the breaks and this weeks jackpot is a tidy £83 million and I certainly wouldn't mind sharing that with 20 people. I guess we will never find out how it was actually done unless one of the producers or cameramen (or camera persons to be politically correct) break their silence which I'm pretty sure also won't happen for fear of death (or maybe just some form of Channel 4 based secrets act).