Derren Brown - Miracle (possible spoilers don't read if you don't want it spoilt)
rockerchick
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I was up on stage with Derren during one of his shows last month. It is really bugging me how he pulled off the trick he did with me, does anyone have any theories on how he did it? It is the one where he puts a twitter status on asking for a word, then the person chosen (me) had to pick a word and keep it secret) Then i was called up on stage with a book i had been given earlier and I was told to go to the number page that a person had picked earlier which was missing and in Derren's pocket. He had me take it out and one of the words was covered up and low and behold that was the word I had secretly picked earlier. Over a month later and I still can't figure it out. He must have placed hidden cameras around the place surely? That's all I can think of. Plus the word I picked was quite unusual so I don't know how it would have been in the book in the first place! Thanks in advance 
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You'd have to walk through the process of how you picked the word (from what) what you did, where was it kept, where were you physically. How did you verify it was the same word. Your description is too vague, I'm afraid.
So in your case, i'm guessing he somehow, from the words or phrases he used in the lad up to the trick, planted the word in your mind that he wanted you to pick and that he'd setup in the book.
<Grabs popcorn, settles in for some fun>
I was first called out to the side of the audience and he had me and another audience member get out our phones and look through the words everyone had sent in 10 mins earlier on the twitter status, wrote it down (and I made sure no one was looking and quickly folded it up and put it in my bag. (earlier in the show he asked a random audience member to pick a three digit number between a certain set of numbers - although this was quite a large range) then in the second half he picked me over the other audience member to come up on stage. then all the stuff with the going to the page (of the number the other audience member had picked earlier) to find it missing happened then he said pull this out of my pocket. the book went down on the side of the table and they got the camera on it, told me to screw my eyes shut, revealed the covered word on the page to the audience then with my eyes still shut he had me say out loud the word i secretly picked. I still have the paper now so they didn't sneakily take it off me or anything. Even after the show I had people coming up to me asking if I was a real audience member! Haha
Sounds like it could go wrong too easily though...
No 'pissing on my bonfire' - I'm aware it was a trick, was just interesting to know how he did it. Plus it's something he would have difficulty preparing in advance for as the twitter status is put up during the show.
Were you provided the pen with which to write the word? Possibly a very simple explanation if so.
Each as own but his magic tricks or mind tricks dont seem to wash with me, maybe I just see through it all. I'm not saying you or others are thick, I guess I mean that if you rip it all apart and look into it under the microscope you can easily piece together how its done. Even you or I could do it.
Yes i was by one of the theatre staff. What is this explanation
Nah nothing to do with auto suggestion. It's a very old trick. The trick is in making you assume he used suggestion or psychology, that he does not.
It has to be much more foolproof than that.
A very old trick polished up. It's the book trick using Twitter. He wants people to think he uses suggestion but he doesn't.
you've intimated several times on this thread you know how it's done "it's a very old trick" so walk us through exactly how he did it....that is after all what the OP asked for
It was probably a simple forced choice trick he used. It's never as fascinating when you know that though, is it?
I replied already it's most likely a variation of the book trick, that is a forced choice trick.
That's not "walking us through exactly how it was done".
A couple of times you said "it's a very old trick" then you said "it's the book trick" that is you stating you know how it is done. Then that changed to "probably a forced choice trick" now it's "most likely a variation of..." so you don't know then, you are merely hypothesising.^_^
What is the book trick? I'm a real thicko when it comes to this kind of stuff so can you explain in layman's terms exactly how he did it?
I would have to see the whole trick to 'walk you through it.'
I say probably because there is more than one way to do the trick and forced choice is the most likely.
But I'm sure no psychology was involved other than lying as magicians do.
Are we going to have a thread each month to reveal magic tricks?
The book trick is an old trick in which the magician already chose the word in the book.