Tonight Derren Brown, well known entertainer and the ultimate dinner party guest (I guess he never has to buy his own food), will tonight attempt to predict the UK’s Wednesday Lottery draw numbers on a special Channel 4 (C4) programme. This should be interesting and I think it is possible for him to do it particularly since reading his book “Tricks of the Mind”. He may not actually predict the numbers but it is well within his capabilities to convince us that he has. That said we know that the lottery balls are picked at random and each ball has the same chance to be drawn as any other so it is easy to fall into the gamblers trap of believing that since say a 9 hasn’t been drawn in a while that it is due next or that there is some “system” can can be applied to predict the numbers. So it will be interesting to see what happens, perhaps we can all work it out and make the lottery useless as we could all win the jackpot every week ! Myself, I have only won a maximum of about £40 but like an idiot I play it every week. If anyone out there has a “System” to predict the lottery numbers then let me know.