Derren Brown’s roulette system failed

As even Derren Brown, the stage “hypnotist” who regularly shocks and scares his audience in the UK with just how much he knows about his subjects from as little as apparently touching their hand, or just how willing he can make his subjects be to rob Securicor vans, has just failed to correctly predict where on the roulette wheel a ball will land after a year of research and practice, there really is no hope of beating the wheel it would now, finally, seem.

Maybe this will give most of us closure. Brown did, after all, even correctly predict the National Lottery numbers in the UK (a guess worth £2.4 million to a less honest hypnotist). He professed to having given it around a years research into how to correctly guess the trajectory of a ball, after analysing the speed of the wheel and the speed that the ball was traveling around it. I’ll post back with the details of just how he came so close when we know more. Although he got it wrong in the pressure of an unnamed European casino, he was only one off….