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Mr Dave wrote:
(If it wasn't staged, I'd also expect the cup to be slightly less crushable, just in case. But I doubt someone would do that without being safe, so staged is a distinct possibility)
Brown's always been adamant he doesn't use stooges; too much risk of them selling their story to the Sun for £100k, he says. He may have a point.
Well, as I said, the trick is fairly simple. When scared, people aren't going to try to avoid what you'd predict them to do, and so the central cup is the one they'd miss (also handily 13). I didn't check what the pattern at the halfway mark was, so I don't know. I'd guess central ones were still left. And as I said, even if the person went wrong, I'm sure the mouse was in no danger.
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The coin trick was fairly obvious. Simple maths.
Is it? I couldn't do it in my head and haven't bothered to write it down so far.
Aye, it was very simple to figure out with the coins given. With HHH, unless you get the H's all in a row to begin with, there's no way of getting three Hs without a T preceeding. I also haven't done the maths, but I can see that there would be a sequence likely to preceed the first one chosen, and so be reached before the first sequence. I don't know how to explain it, but I find the theory fairly intuitive.
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And of course the explanation was utter bollocks. Having disarmed us with the coin maths (which he didn't really explain) he basically says "this is similar" when it really, really isn't. No mathematical basis for it at all. Don't really know how he did the previous runs unless the people there were also in on the trick.
I was thinking, lots of groups they shot. Wouldn't have to work too hard to get a group to get a few numbers right.
Well, the simplest explanation. The firswt run was pure probability. Getting one isn't all that unlikely, and he could've run with 0 instead had that occured. My suspicion is that the subconcious writing was a front to get one person who apparently couldn't do it - presumably a colleague of some description - to do all the calculations, Feed him the correct numbers (as the people there can't tell if the draw is live or not) and simple.
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I think he's excellent in general. I was disappointed in last nights show. Next week had better be better.
Agreed, he's an astonishingly good magician. Usually, even if I can't immediately spot what the trick is, I have a good idea, or havew spotted some part of it. Some of the stuff he does I haven't a clue, and the stuff I do know he's extraordinarily smooth, and if you didn't already know the trick, you wouldn't stand a chance.
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(And I used to piss his father off something rotten)
You can't leave us hanging. What?
Derren went to my school (also: my university), and his father taught there as a swimming coach. (
ref) By the age of 15 or so, swimming wasn't a compulsory lesson, and so only a few of us did it. I don't think many teachers would let you (as in the entire class) get away with turning up over an hour and a half into a two hour lesson, or any of the whole host of things we used to get up to in the lessons. Never got in trouble for it though - he was a nice guy, really.