People at the table have got to be actors. There is no way to read peoples minds....derren brown used to be good, this is just blatantly crap.

>> ^charliem:
People at the table have got to be actors. There is no way to read peoples minds....derren brown used to be good, this is just blatantly crap.


Just because you can't understand how he does it doesn't mean it has to be fake.

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OK, with the assumption that it is real - any guesses on how he does it? I've got nothing.

I've watched a small marathon of Derren Brown lately. Fascinating stuff!

He really is a master of how the subconscious works. If you want to see an example of how one trick works, watch:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Derren-Brown-Trick-Explained

The pin number could have been involuntary muscle response in the person's hand. If you watch the video again, you will notice that Derrin is staring at the hand to look for responses. The word game... I don't know, but I've seen Derren's style and he typically sets people up subconsciously for his tricks.

A great example:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Derren-Brown-plays-with-Simon-Peggs-mind

And just watched this last night:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Derren-Brown-The-Heist

You should read his book, it's quite interesting. Sometimes he's already put a suggestion into someone long before the trick goes off. It's probable that he sent some queues to the young woman at the start of dinner, and then got her to think of black. His genius comes where he puts an idea in your head, and gets you to believe that you thought it.

Would not be hard to follow that logic, if you have a subconcious suggestion of "black" and then do a word association game, where you think of the first word as a reaction, and black comes to your mind =)

I luv me some Derren Brown, he is adamant about not using stooges. In some of his shows, he shows clips where his tricks go terribly wrong =)

Yeah, I have to admit that I'm a believer. But I just love the woman's quote at the end.

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Derren is NOT a fake and does not use actors or stooges he is just incredible at what he does - simple as that Do some research on him properly please!