OK, so Derren Brown got the lottery balls right, but how did he do it? All will be revealed on Friday night. Some people have theories about it, including me. I’m interested in the row of red lights on the back wall. It’s hard to tell from the angles as the back wall is not straight on, but the base of the ball stand also look to be slightly angled, and in the shot above, they could easily be facing each other.
Are these red lights somehow writing on the balls via laser, or a tightly focused beam of infra red light onto IR sensitive balls? Note how he doesn’t move them or touch them at all before the end of the show. Could they be very precisely positioned for such a beam to work?
The red lights are hidden from the camera most of the time, so we can’t see what they do when the numbers are being called out…
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