Er. Well he started off by saying his whole show was misdirection.
Then he said he either:
1. faked a lottery ticket
2. actually predicted the lottery result
3. fixed the machines.
He said he didn't do 1. fake a ticket (which is technically true - he didn't get a ticket).
He spent most of the show talking about prediction in humans. i.e. showing a trick where he asked for someone who was scared of mice to come to the front. Told her she had to put her hand in 3 out of 4 covered boxes. 1 box had a mouse in it. She picked box, 3, 1, 2 and left 4. Although none of them really had a mouse in it, he turned over a card that showed he'd predicted that she would leave box 4. Apparently fear makes us more predictable.
he then spent a long time talking about a 1 in 20 chance. He told a boy he had to stamp on 14 out of 20 cups. 1 cup contained an upturned knife which would stab him through the foot. Fear was turned up by having paramedics on standby, a (fake) tetanus injection first and his bare feet swabbed with disinfectant. He asked him how much compensation he would want if he did get stabbed. the bloke said £500k. Derren wrote him a cheque for that amount. Guy stamps on 14 paper cups. Derren reveals that on the back of the cheque are the numbers 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 (I think) which correspond with the numbers of cups remaining. Then goes onto stamp on 5 more cups, predictably leaving cup 13. Again message fear makes us act more predictably. Cup is revealed to have a mouse called Jenny under it rather than a knife.
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