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HeyNow
02-07-2008, 06:48 PM
Has anyone seen this show at Hooters? How are they correctly predicting lottery numbers each night?

Do they have someone backstage getting the numbers during the show while the audience obviously isn't watching a lottery drawing and then they are "predicted" in the show and then they show the tape of the lottery drawing?
LamontJoe
03-23-2008, 05:06 PM
Yeah, I want some info on this. Anyone?
LamontJoe
03-23-2008, 05:25 PM
Yeah, I want some info on this. Anyone?
misterKeno
03-23-2008, 08:20 PM
Somehow it's rigged. Not sure how.

The 'thing' with the phone number being chosen correctly out of a 'random pointing' in the white pages, i think, is the same.

mK
Jacqui, Duskette8
03-24-2008, 05:08 AM
If this is real then why don't they 'predict' them before the show, go buy a ticket and give up 'predicting' in Hooters?? :rolleyes:
vegasbabe
08-03-2008, 12:30 PM
He said he can't pull random numbers out of the air. He actually has to have a person there, whose mind he can read. And yes, I've been told by a magician that it is rigged. Although, neither of us can figure out how.
misterKeno
08-03-2008, 01:02 PM
Yeah, just one of those things.

I (think) with the phone number being chosen correctly out of the white pages RANDOMLY, by a RANDOM person in the audience.... involves a 'seed' placed in the first couple of rows. That's my guess. But, he's got flare & had me a believer for quite a while. Hey, even if some of it is rigged - it's still some entertainment value. Fun.
ForgottenMonk
08-21-2008, 05:15 PM
Hi everyone,
From what I know of magic. If person picked isn't a plant, there are tricks to force a person to pick a particular item/page/etc etc... it may or may not be the case with Gerry McCambridge (who I assume you're talking about). He didn't come off too well in that show "Phenomenon".
Also, when it comes to the prediction tricks a staff from the show writes the answers from the audience down on a prepared piece of paper. The predictions are always something like "On Thursday, Sept 17th, 4:34 pm. A member of the audience will say his favorite color is 'Yellow'....etc...etc... the staff member will fill the essay out, much like Mad Libs. If any of you remember those... After it is filled, add a little misdirection here and switch there... and it looks like he predicted what everyone was going to say.
Nancy from Indiana
08-21-2008, 07:06 PM
Hi Forgotten Monk, that reminds me, we saw a magic show as part of a review (I think it was at Harrahs) years ago. The magician picked a person
out of the audience, asked a bunch of questions & repeated the answers.
When the question/answer portion was over, a woman off stage wheeled
a chalkboard on stage with all the "right" answers.