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Again message fear makes us act more predictably.
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That's just show.
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Yes - I'm amazed at how he can get someone in a trance state so quickly! I'm not sure how he does it, or if they skip chunks of film out.
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Handshake interrupts can put people generally in seconds into a trance state.
You can read up on the technique, there's quite a lot in the internet about it.
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In this computer age, I don't think it would be impossible for those balls to be specially programmed electronic devices that can be set to display numbers determined by an off camera person, or even by the sound of Derren's voice. There certainly was time for an associate to bing-bang-boom the numbers into the balls as soon as he announced them, and he was facing the balls when he announced them, so that a voice recognition program would be able to "hear" him.
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Voice wouldn't be a good medium. Bluetooth is much more likely.
For all we know, the balls could even be connected through a cable to a computer.
But then it seems to have been camera editing:
YouTube - Derren Brown's lottery explained Quote:
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Jenny wasn't a REAL mouse, was she? It makes my heart hurt to think he risked her being stamped on.
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I probably had Jenny in his hand put it her there after all the taps were stamped down.
I highly doubt that there was a risk of her being stamped on.
It's just to create the narrative that there's risk of failure. It's sleight of hand and hasn't much to do with predicting where his subject will step.
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In 1908 someone wrote a book called 'Wisdom of Crowds' (?) where it was revealed that a group of people when guessing the weight of the cow, if you average out their answers will be more correct than the individual guesses.
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The book is
Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Crowds: James Surowiecki: Books . The experiment however was done in 1908.
It's at the moment a web2.0 idea that a lot of people subscribe to.