You may recall Derren Brown’s infamous ‘Lottery trick’ back in September last year. Followed by 2.7 million TV viewers, the illusionist explained how he could predict the numbers drawn in the upcoming EuroMillions lottery – a trick that certainly amazed the whole country and got people thinking.

Derren said that he had used a method dating back several centuries, a method primarily used at cattle shows to guess the weight of an animal.

Derren Brown’s explanation

The theory goes something like this: A group of people each guess the weight of an animal, the average of all the guesses are then likely to be correct. For example, some might guess a Black Angus cow weighs 1,200 pounds, others 1,400 pounds. As such, the likely weight should probably be in the area of 1,300 pounds.

Derren Brown claims to have used the exact same method to forecast the winning combination. He had a group of 24 people, each guessing the first, second, third, fourth and fifth main numbers in EuroMillions. He then took the average of each of the main numbers suggested.

You can believe in this method or not, but it is one way of choosing the lucky numbers to play. One might argue that this method is as good as another, but at least this is more fun than re-using the trivial birthday numbers!

Putting Derren’s strategy into practice

With Gluto.com, this theroy can somewhat be replicated, but on a much larger scale. In our Beta Syndicate, each member suggests their own set of numbers to be played in the following draw, and the average of all suggestions will then be the final combination that the syndicate participates with. No illusions necessary!

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