Dynamo: magician impossible

[bam0]

Anyone worked out how he predicted all the euro 2012 quarter finals, and won a £10000 bet because of it? 1 bet, or 1000 multiple bets of different results, then giving the right envelope to the guy at the this morning studio, who was in on it?

The simple answer is that he didn't. If you accept the two assumptions that he can't influence the outcomes of the games and has no way of knowing what the results will be, then for the trick to work he can't reveal any information until after the time that the results are available, the same as when Derren Brown "predicted" the lottery results.

 

[Ephemera]

Which episode is that? I thought I had watched every NMTB but can't remember this one.

Series 25 Episode 4.

 

[estebanrey]

Anyone worked out how he predicted all the euro 2012 quarter finals, and won a £10000 bet because of it? 1 bet, or 1000 multiple bets of different results, then giving the right envelope to the guy at the this morning studio, who was in on it?

The first thing to be suspicious of is the odds. Accumulators work by multiplying the odds of all of the results together, for that to come to exactly 10,000 would be rather odd (although someone who does accumulators may be able to add more).

After reading the Daily Mail article on it, if states PaddyPower confirmed it but if you read their statement all they confirmed was that he placed a winning bet, not that it was that specific bet....

A Paddy Power spokesman told MailOnline: 'I can confirm that the magician 'Dynamo' placed a winning £1 accumulator bet on Euro 2012 in a Paddy Power betting office in London on Thursday, 21 June last.'

He isn't short of a few bob, and I'm guessing £10k isn't much to Dynamo. The charity he donated it to are close to his heart as he suffered cancer as a child and he does a lot of work for them.

I would say he had decided to give them £10k, but used Euro 2012 to do it cleverly. The prediction in a sealed envelope trick is a staple effect of his and there are plenty of ways he could have done that (with or without the need for co-operation).

I don't think he covered all possible outcomes because his bet stated how the win were achieved too (i.e on penalties or not and he said Spain would win by 2 in the final). There are 128 possible outcomes if you are just betting on the tie winner regardless of how they win, but hundreds of thousands once you throw in things like penalties and goal margins.

PaddyPower could have been a confederate, after all having their betting slip shown on one of ITV's flagship shows isn't bad free advertising.