AGT Champion Shin Lim's Mind-Blowing Up Close Card Tricks

Hey guys, it's Shin Lim is in the house. Magician extraordinaire, AGT two time winner, Las Vegas headliner.

Yep, that's it. That's all. That's it. Yeah, that's it. No more titles. No more titles. No, no more titles.

Well, I'm just kidding. You've rearranged our studio. Yeah, yeah, this cuz we're we're we're telling we're at a dealer's casino right now. Okay, which is we have some felt, which is nice, cuz you're gonna be doing some some some handiwork. But but you see that the we have the piece of paper. Now, totally up to you, okay? You can write on the paper, or do you want to write on your hand? Up to you.

Which is um better for me?

It'll be more, it'll be more organic if you wrote on your hand, for sure. So that's but it's up to you. I'm in.

Yeah, you're in?

Okay. Great, so we don't need we don't need this paper.

Yeah. I'm in. Magic.

Now, uh I just, yeah we have a deck of cards, obviously. I want you to have a a lighter, okay? Just imagine you have a lighter and you're lighting up the cards. All right? And then you got the picture cards, which is the court cards, the jack, queen, kings. Yeah? And then we have the numbers. Imagine you're lighting either the numbers or the court cards. Totally up to you. Which one do you want to light up? The numbers or the court cards?

You want to tell you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fine, cuz we need to eliminate somehow.

Numbers.

The numbers. All right, so right now we have just the numbers. Imagine they're all up in flames, right? Okay. So we have the ace to 10, yeah? With all the numbers. Ace to 10 with the spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds, right? Totally up to you. You pick whichever one you want. Whichever one you want, you just write on your hand. So if it's the Ace of Clubs, just do A and then C. Okay? Or if it's the Five of Hearts, you do Five and H. On your hand. So I'm picking. You're picking it and you're writing it on your hand. That way you're promising the card it's staying there, okay? And and show it to that camera, okay? I don't want to I don't want to see it. And make sure everyone at home sees it as well. That's great. And then you can show it to the I I promise I'm I'm really not looking. I'm looking away. Okay. So, so, so, so now once you have it, it's not facing me, is it?

No.

Okay, close your hand to a fist. And just lay it down on on the floor. Perfect. Okay, that this this way there's no way I can know what the card is, all right? All right, so I'm just trying to try to try to find it. I know this is kind of this is kind of hard but uh let's see. I don't think Okay, well, first first we have to remove all the all the court cards. So that's that's all the court cards right over there. And then I'm just gonna see if I can I think this is I don't know. I'm making kind of a wild guess, but I'm just gonna I's gonna I think I think that is it. For the first time ever. Now I I didn't look through your hand or anything. I can promise you that. What was your card that that you picked? That you wrote down?

You want to tell you?

Yeah, yeah, you can tell me now.

Two of Hearts.

Two of Hearts. Open it up. I just want to see if you're telling the truth. Perfect. Yeah, of course. So you had the Two of Hearts. And I picked one card. Did I touch that card the entire time?

Just to put it down.

Just to put it down, but I didn't I didn't touch it after you revealed it, did you?

I'm sweating. Um That's okay. No, I don't think No, I didn't, right?

No. Well, I don't want to touch it anymore. Take that card and show it to the camera.

No.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, really, really. No. Do it. Take it. Take it. Take it and show it.

No, I'm scared. What the

No, no, no, but But remember we we were burning the cards, right? But remember what you did? Look, look, look, look. We were burning the cards, so if I can actually burn if I was truly burning the cards, I can actually switch out this card. That means this card never existed. That means this card never existed. Actually, wait, none of these cards. Yeah, none of the cards ever existed. They're all They're all gone. You can you can check. Check everything. You okay there?

How do you do that?

Well, the the ink the ink

I was watching you, too. What'd you do?

Nothing, I just this but you you picked the you picked the card, right? You saw I picked the card and then and then

Wait, you just pulled out another deck.

Yeah, yeah, you want to see another trick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, okay, okay. Or do you mean do I want to be amazed again?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. You want to see another trick. Okay, okay, okay.

Wait, can I look at these?

Sure. Yeah, as much as you want. All right, so we just did the Two of Hearts. But now we we want to do a trick where you and I are are are the only ones uh performing, okay? So so no no one else is doing any tricks or anything like that. All right? This is just you and I, we're gonna try to find the same card at the same time. I I know it's kind of weird. Um but tell you what, shuffle the cards again. So give it a mix.

Okay. Yeah. In my own way.

In your own way. Just don't drop the cards. We can't though, cuz we have a dealer's table, so we're good. Okay. Great. Okay, so I'm gonna riffle down the deck.

Oh, okay, cool. All right. Okay. Okay. All right. Good. So you sure you shuffled the cards?

I think so. Yeah. Okay, I think you reversed one card. I think. Yeah. So let's fix it. Queen of Spades, right? Yeah. Okay. Anyway, it's strange that I knew that. All right. Uh I'm gonna riffle down the deck like this and then you just say stop anytime you want, okay? You'll have that camera take a look at the card. Anytime you want.

Stop.

Right there? You sure?

Can I look?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You you remember the card?

Yeah.

Don't forget it, okay? All right, take the deck. Give it a mix. Yeah, shuffle it. Shuffle it up. Great. All right. So uh I have no I have genuinely no idea what your card is, right? Cuz I mean obviously we we checked we checked the cards.

I don't want to forget it.

Yeah. Okay. Totally up to you. Your choice uh top or bottom. Totally up to you.

Top.

Top. Okay, great. All right, so uh I didn't I didn't touch the deck anywhere, right? And the best place in order to to locate the card would be the top. Do you see what's at the top right now? What was your card?

Ace.

And you shuffled, you shuffled the cards. I didn't shuffle at all.

What'd you do?

Nothing. You shuffled it. I didn't touch it at all. I swear to God. You can look it over at the camera. What are you doing? You can check Okay, we'll do one more time. We'll do it again. You want a different card or you want to keep keep the Ace?

Do again. Different.

Different card. Okay, okay, cool. Great. I'm gonna riffle it. You just say stop anywhere, okay?

Stop.

Right there? You sure?

Uh-huh. It's not the same card, is it? It is not. Is it a different card?

Okay, do this exact same thing. Shuffle the cards. Mix it mix it up again. Oh, careful. All right, you're really mixing it up now. Great. All right. Okay, happy? Until only when you're happy. You happy now?

Okay. I'm nervous. I'm scared now.

Oh, you're nervous? Oh, okay, great, great. Well, we'll do something totally different. We're gonna mix up the cards, both you and I, okay? But I need to split the cards up into two uh different piles for this. So uh completely up to you. Would you say they're more or less equal?

I think Probably, yeah.

Yeah, they're more more or less. Okay, you just point point to one packet. It doesn't matter which one. Just point to one.

That one.

Okay, grab it. Hold the cards like this. Everyone hold the cards like that. Perfect. All right, now we're gonna remember we have this table, yeah? We're gonna pretend we're a dealer at a casino. Right. So try to practice dealing. Try to dealing the top card.

Sure.

Great. Okay, try to dealing again. I want to see Okay, now shuffle the cards and deal. Shuffle and deal. Deal. Shuffle and deal. All right, now some cards

Yeah, and then some cards you can throw behind your back if you want.

Yeah, go ahead. Shuffle, deal, throw behind your back. Try to You're throwing all of them. All right, that's great. Keep going. Yeah, keep going. You're not doing anything wrong. You can be as messy as you want as random as you want. You're you're just trying to mix it up. That's all it is. Great. Okay, that was back to me, but okay. Great, perfect. It's like raining. You can even go in packets if you're lazy. More than one card, yeah? Throw more than one? Yeah, yeah, you can if you want. Okay, great. Yes, it's raining. It's raining first. So I'm So you're done. You're Vegas now. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. All right. So you happy? You done?

Sure.

Okay, great. You can throw the you can throw the rest.

No.

Yeah, you can throw the rest over there.

Here?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine. We're just gonna focus on what we had. You threw too many. Okay. Great, perfect. All right. So we have these cards over here. Yeah, Square them up. Put them in your back into your hand.

Now, um uh do you you play poker?

No.

No, if Okay, I mean I kind of know. That's fine.

In poker, we burn cards. We burn the top card like this into the middle. Go ahead, burn the top card into the middle. The reason why we did that was because uh magicians used to cheat. Used to have markings on the back. That's why they burnt the top card in case it had markings on the back. That's that's really why. So you can burn as many top cards as you want. Uh just don't throw all of them, okay? Just throw some.

I'll stop I'll stop here, but you got you can keep going. Don't throw all, obviously, but

Well, I have three left.

Okay, great. Keep going?

Yeah, yeah. Up to you. Totally up to your choice.

Do I need any left?

Well, you have two. I'll stop here, but you can. I mean, I'll hold these.

Okay, sure.

So you only have two cards left, right?

Yeah.

Go count. Just make sure yeah, count one, two. Great, great. Perfect. Now don't touch your cards anymore. I have two cards as well. So I threw I threw a ton away. We mixed up the cards. They're all over the studio.

Yeah, we're we're we're shuffling the cards.

So I actually have no idea to be honest. I I may have messed up this trick, by the way. So this is this is very very difficult trick cuz I had to keep control of your hand, not not just my hands, but your hand, cuz you know I was doing sleight of hand this whole time, right?

You're the master of sleight of hand.

Well, yeah, but but but sleight of hand when it comes to my hands, trying to keep control of your hand is also That's pretty difficult because

It's multitasking and It's a lot.

Well, yeah, I mean I have to take control of your mind essentially. What was your card? Do you remember? Was it Ace of Diamonds?

Ace of Diamonds?

Okay, Ace of Diamonds. Great. So you shuffled the cards, right?

I think I did. You mixed it up as much. I threw them, mixed them.

You mixed it up as much, right? Okay. How many how many aces are there? I mean you picked the you picked the Ace of Spades before, right? So Ace of Diamonds. Probably, yeah. There's four aces. But how many red aces are there? There's two, right?

There's two. You're asking me questions. Two. That's okay. Yeah. The other one is the Ace of Hearts.

Right now we have two people, that's you and me. Yeah. Right? You picked the Ace of Diamonds. So the other matching card to that is the Ace of Hearts. I shuffled my packet as much as I want. And you shuffled your deck the entire time. There's cards all over the studio. The Ace could be there, but

Is that the red one?

Yeah, the other red one, yeah. Cuz there's only two red aces in the deck. Okay. And we have two packets right now. Now, I have the Ace of Hearts and I shuffled my pack and you shuffled your deck the entire time. Look at the top card.

No. Yes. Yeah, you shuffled it. I didn't do anything. Give it a mix. Let's it up. Let's it up. Show it to the camera. I'm sure they want to see. I'm so scared. Is it the Ace? Oh my God, yeah. That's cool. What the No, no, no. But this is all But remember what you did? Heck. Heck. Yeah, that's the right word to use. What do you Heck? Heck. And you can this is all this is the normal you can examine everything. How do you do it?

Well, I had to keep track of your hand the whole time. That that's the hard part.

Wow. Yeah. And you and I I sometimes I do this with four people, so it's it's harder to keep track with all four people. You're incredible.

Oh, thank you.

So you're in Vegas with no end in sight for your show. That's incredible.

Yeah, it's crazy. But I'm I'm really honored, to be honest. And I I can't wait to to see what the future holds.

Well, how can people see you live?

Uh well, you can see me live in Vegas at the Mirage Casino and Hotel. Uh tickets are available on the Mirage website or you can go to shinlimmagic. com. You can also see it there. And uh or my socials too, if you want to see like really up-to-date stuff. Uh on my Instagram is @shinlimmagic. Same with my YouTube. So I am humbled. No, thank you. I really appreciate it.

Mind blown. Yeah. Two of Hearts. Crazy.