jayefbe
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They likely planted someone in the audience who performs a specific scramble on each cube.
Derren's a magician, of course, and not a world-class BLD solver, so it's certainly some kind of trick. I would think it would be something like this:
1) Replacing the scrambled cube with a hidden one as it is being brought to him.
he tends to be fairly loose with revealing his own tricks.
I have a few friends who are magicians and agree with this analysis.
Do you have an example for that?
I wouldn't call it cheating. It's a magic show, not <country>'s got talent.
I don't think anyone is accusing him of cheating
Somewhere in-between half and 3/4 of all of his vids he reveals the trick at the end.
Did you read the title of the thread?
I was referring specifically to the most recent developments, which I thought was clear enough. Although I know people often don't read the dates when they read threads so perhaps it would have been a good idea for me to make that clear.
What he is also clear on is that he does not use 'plants', patsies, or stooges, i.e. people placed in the audience or pre-defined scrambles.
The man travels the world learning obscure skills, and has an FINITE amount of spare time.
I think he has you under his spell. on the count of three you will wake up: One, Two, Th....coffeetimeOkso Derren Brown is very open about the fact that what he does is NOT magic, but showmanship. What he is also clear on is that he does not use 'plants', patsies, or stooges, i.e. people placed in the audience or pre-defined scrambles.
Knowing how good his memory is (he can memorise the order of four decks of cards as quickly as you our I could count them), I'd like to believe that he's learnt how to commute cubies, and had the image of the two cubes in his mind.
The man travels the world learning obscure skills, and has an infinite amount of spare time. Whatever the explanation is, I'm pretty sure it's not a panted cube, that would be his most underwhelming trick ever!
Did you read the OP? 'Recent developments' are the same thing as it.
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