Sure, I see your point now Phil.Phil Reynolds wrote:What I'm getting at is, why complicate things unnecessarily? The split screen explanation for the lottery trick is not just the one that is self-evidently true once you examine the footage closely; it's also the simplest way of doing it given that there was no audience in the studio to witness what really happened. With the squash ball trick, he had a volunteer there throwing the ball for him. What do you suppose she saw at the time, if the footage we saw was CGI'd?
I wondered if you could also rig the squares, such that they're angled very very slightly towards 37, and made to bounce the ball differently (37 won't bounce the ball hardly at all, whereas the squares furthest from it will give it an extra boost) I have only seen this segment of the show once, but I think Matt seemed to think the bounce of the ball looked unusual. Again, that's probably overcomplicating it, but it would make the effect utterly convincing from the spectator's point of view. I really don't know if it's possible, it doesn't sound too far-fetched to me, but I really have no idea about stuff like that. Actually it does sound quite far-fetched reading it back. But I dunno, it might be possible. Maybe.