Battle of Wits: Little Boy Challenges Derren Brown | Amaze 

"no stooges" is also not impressive since all the Stooges are dead.

When Simon Pegg looked like Simon Pegg

Baron Von Boom and not Ashens? XP

@@andreaumbert4127 what

@@BruceCinema1337 Iggy pop isn’t dead

lol

yes, 2.19 i think he blinked, very easy to see.... lol

I thought this too.. but I suppose as his opponent was usually feeling ill, they didn't really notice.

It was a staring contest not a no blink contest.

@@jakeselwyn33 0:59

I think that he frequently _doesn't_ show when a trick doesn't work though, and that it happens relatively often. So your last statement is quite erroneous.

@@MsHojat evidence? Or do you just like to feel fictitiously in the know?

I actually think he spent all day tricking people successfully and for something nice, decided to give the cash to a kid deliberately.

He purposefully gets it wrong or "slightly wrong" very often because it makes it more believable. If he gets it 100% right 100% of the time you know it's a trick, but if he gets it slightly wrong it makes it seem more like he's doing something difficult and magical and NOT a trick (he has explicitly said in one of his books that this is a good principle of magic and mentalism)

I don’t know. Darren Brown but I do know the editor who worked on Trick of the mind. ( this show) Dan Mac Donald .he said when they have tricks that don’t work? They choose which ones to show. This one was to distract you from the ending which shows how he got Simon Pegg. No heart break .lol just mis directions

I do wonder if he let the kid win .. or of any others are paid actors

No paid actors... I have seen Derren live on stage 3 times .My ex Wife even ended up on stage with him at The Manchester Palace and I can assure you it was a totally random selection.Definitely no stooges ever used; If you have never seen him live then you have to go one day!

@@stewartgallagher5804 Some of Derren Browns tricks are such that they don't have a 100% chance of success. This was one of those such tricks. Derren regularly gets some of his predictions wrong, but it just serves to make it more impressive when he gets it right. As if he got his predictions correct 100% of the time then you'd know it's just a "trick" and if he always got it right there would be no suspense when it comes to the revelation.

u saved me time..thanks

@@24magiccarrot Precisely !

But thats one of Derrens butthole surfers so hes gonna go with the scenario

Indeed

@@igorsvacic217 The game isn't who blinks first it's to look into the eyes of each other and whoever stops the game loses.

@@HumanTypewriter he said quite clearly 'whoever blinks, or looks away, loses'. You can see a 2nd blink from derren on the new camera angle too.

@@HumanTypewriter No, Bear, you are mistaken. At 0:57 Derren himself says, "And these are the rules for a staring competition: The first person to look away or blink loses the game."

It pays to save, kids!

That's a great comment

Throwing shade. Not sure ive hears that phrase berore. Nice

Those people are hypnotized to feel like that before trick, you know? That bit is left out of the show. It doesn't make them 'stooges' or 'actors', just participants. Did you think he could make people feel ill and freak out just by staring at them?

@@RickRubinesque My thoughts exactly

thecrazychef1 interesting. How did they hypnotize the spectators??

He saw the demons

😅

As mentioned in the comment just above yours. I no doubt new you had seen it though, the probability of you just posting the same comment without knowing is very low. But hay maybe thats the subliminal mind picking up on it, either that or you just steal other people theory's in order to get attention.

In another show he explained how the handshake is so automatic, so routine that if it is interupted, it puts the persons brain in a confused, suseptable state. Thats how he started the 'trick' on Simon.

or hear me out... he changed just the envelope, maybe the guy wanted since day one a bmx bike but the leather jacket was fake

nice one

omg lol i didnt even notice

@@mrleet6247 Is that what it was yeah? Gotcha.

Derren brown truly does mind tricks. He does some magic, but if he says it's magic, it's magic. If he says it's a psychological trick, that's truly what it is. Look up the one where he convinces someone to electrocute a kitten. It's all psychology.

Anthony Murray 🤣 same!!!

Koda T or some people are truly gullible 🤷‍♂️

Paid actors

He is!

Absolutely, and it's an incredibly powerful and effective tool. Derren's greatest triumph in his career is probably maintaining that psychological aura he has with the general public.

@@shadow4798 Couldn't agree more that is his triumph. Every time with a friend I try to break down how a trick is done, they go straight to "Well obviously Derren influenced them to think of...", and i'm like, wow he really has them convinced he can do that. I've even found they'll hold onto that belief even after i've implicitly explained an effect. For example, "An Evening of Wonders" grand effect simply uses a Master Prediction Device. You can explain all kinds of effects to people and they still maintain this almost religious-like belief that Derren can manipulate minds to an extent that would be supernatural, a thing he endlessly tells people not to believe in. His TV specials are some of the best, people simply wont believe the explanation "they're just going along with it", they're convinced Derren "programs" them.

@@feenix1033 yes I have allways said his great illusion is that this is in some way mind control..people do, as you rightly say, still buy into the idea of 'influence' even after you have explained it was a straight switch or whatever..was Simon Pegg supposed to be a random member of the public..in other words..was this filmed before mr Pegg was famous and now it all looks rather like he was a young actor that Derren got to act amazed?..I dont know when this was made

@@cliveedwards2958 Ah yes that trick is all about selling to the audience that the trick is NLP. It isn't, NLP is pseudoscience. However it's an excellent way to distract from the real effect. That said, these are still amongst some of Derren's greatest effects. I've watched many of his live shows and when it came to "Miracle", me and my pal couldn't even muster a standing auvation at the end, seemingly the only two people in the crowd to remain seating. It was obvious how most of the affects were achieved, or they were simply variations on very common effects we see nowadays. Derren sometimes hasn't done himself any favours (although it's often when pushed by a network to get a special out). He admits himself the predicting the lottery was not his finest work and he's not proud of it. I'd also say "Miracle at 40,000 feet", where the subject supposedly lands a plane, is utterly and completely ridiculous. He knows and chooses to go along with the stunt.

@@feenix1033 interesting...I remember his 'horse racing prediictions' special..which I'd worked out back in 1970s how to do..they used to advertise these predictors in the exchange and mart back then..you have, I take it , been to his shows?..is there a serious amount of editing going on before broadcast? As you rightly say, he has wrapped this up ad mentalism or such..but on a basic illusionist level how good was he at the shows?

Malka Kovalenko i feel like it’s because he said “there” twice which could have put the number three in her head and then kept saying “it’s a TWO digit number” 🤔 therety two?? 😂

I thought 11. Maybe because he wrote it so quickly behind his back.

Well I thought 98.

Nicoladen i had 24

And we don't know what they talked about earlier.

of course he is...you can't read with your finger

@@DicedPotato I had 24 tooo

@@doomyman But he might've used other techniques

sleight*

@@SelcraigClimbs voila*

@@Vee-Hive Baritone*

and the title is wrong

If you familiarize yourself with Derren's other work you'll see he often goes out of his way to debunk people who claim to have 'powers', when they are just tricks. He has too much integrity to lie about his work.

Tayne Redman He literally says this in the video mate

OMG, me, too. What did he say to make us think 23? I know it was something...I'm going to go back and watch it, again. The very first number I briefly had settled on for like a half of a second was 52. Think how similar that looks to 32, depending on a person's handwriting. I know it's all just suggestion and manipulation, but I genuinely didn't catch how he manipulated both of us to get to that number.

you think it was just a trick made to look like influence?

just watched the full video realised they explained it

Im sure he wanted too get it wrong so he could give the kid the cash

Ilija Stojanovski he does this in his live show, wink wink

real?

Innit?

gerard sullivan He might not be so “Gifted” without his “friends “ helping him 💀💀☠️☠️with Impossible feats

gerard sullivan you Know him?

gerard sullivan “All just an illusion of forces?”..ya mean like Dark satanic forces?? 🤔or legions helping

I was debating between 32 and 23 as well, but went with 32. You are smarter than me, megachris!

He just wrote it with a "thumb pen" or something idk exactly what it is

And he said 'two digit' number. So a two was gonna be in there

I also some how figured 32

Reddit has it. Google bmx derren song

Victor Malloy - Different time

Yep, that's click bait

adverts

Ha! Ha!

Ultrasounds maybe. He makes them stand in a particular location so it's some hidden device.

Definitely ultrasound

Are you being serious?

I know...WeEeEeeiIiRRrRrRrdD isn't it???

He didn't have a script so he weren't in work. 😀

My best guess is that Derren, as he did we everyone else, made assumptions about the kid. I imagine is is very rare for a kid to be walking around with £30 in his wallet. Especially if he is with his family, it'd be reasonable to assume if he wanted anything they would pay for it.

I believe he really wanted the kid to win the £100 as a gift from him. So in a way, he made the kid win. But then again, what do I know? LOL

'Guessing' the amount of money would necessitate pre-preparation to pull off (not shown on camera). By including an occasional wrong 'guess' he cleverly implies that it really was just guessing or estimating. NOTHING but NOTHING DB does or says can be taken at face value.

The suggestion was in him saying 2 digit number three times.....

@@opinionatorX I looked again and again and found some hand gestures that were 3 and 2 fingers raised.

I had 23 in my mind

@@LP02man Perhaps you're dyslexic. Joking!

@@Hotwire_RCTrix almost.. but look at how he positioned her hand ... 3 fingers bent back to the left and 2 straight out on the right ... reading left to right is " 32 "