At 04:56 PM 10/24/2001 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Lucky wrote:
It would have been more impressive had Copperfield revealed the numbers he predicted an hour /before/ the drawing...
Yes, but that would have required REAL magic (or time travel).
Or rigging the lottery drawing, but surely *that's* never been done :-) You can also simulate time travel through delayed transmission; cf: The Sting for examples of that. Probably wasn't done here, but it could have been, and putting out a broadcast story of "Earlier today, The Amazing Bogomeister successfully predicted the Powerball Lottery", showing Himself with the clock in the background *clearly* indicating the time as an hour before the real lottery drawing took place would reinforce it.