ILLUSIONIST CRACKS UK LOTTERY NUMBERS (Update)
11 September 2009
Will reveal how he did it Friday
The UK media are trying to work out how illusionist
Derren Brown managed to fulfil his promise Wednesday
night to predict the winning National Lottery numbers
(see previous InfoPowa report). But the media, and the
public it serves, will not know until Friday when Brown
has promised to explain what must surely be a monumental
sleight-of-hand.
Channel 4 live television
screened Brown's attempt to call the draw across its
five channels - the first time the broadcaster has given
over its entire network to a single event.
After
indulging in some theatrics to heighten the suspense,
Brown said "I can't believe it" when he turned over the
numbers he said he had selected in advance to reveal
they matched all six in the official draw.
Brown's publicists looking for a big start for his new
series of television tricks hit the jackpot with this
one, which has achieved massive coverage in the British
press both pre and post event, and garnered a large
television audience.
Brown set up the Lottery
event in a secret studio location, telling viewers only
he and two cameramen were present. After explaining that
the line of balls on display contained the numbers he
had predicted earlier in the day, he said he would not
be able to show them to the public until after the BBC
had screened the draw.
To prove his show was
live he switched on a television in the studio showing
the BBC1 National Lottery draw programme.
"We
are absolutely live and in synch with the BBC," he said.
As he waited for the draw machine to be
launched, a nervous-looking Brown apologised to viewers
in case he got the numbers wrong.
"I should say
this is the culmination of a year's obsession over
this," he said. "I have had Lottery numbers all up over
the walls of my house.
"If it goes wrong...I'm
really sorry."
Brown watched silently as the
draw, with this week's jackpot of GBP2.4 million,
delivered the numbers 2, 11, 23, 28, 35, 39.
Holding a card up with the numbers written on it, Brown
then turned over his row of balls which were exact
matches for the six.
He said: "Those are the
numbers.
"That's a year of my life right there."
National Lottery spokesmen said that 70 percent of
Britain's adult population were ticket buyers hoping to
win big with their predictive choice of numbers, and
stressed that it was not possible to influence the
actual draw. Brown's objective as an illusionist was to
create the illusion that he had accurately predicted the
winning numbers prior to the draw, they emphasised.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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