Shin Lim dazzles the TODAY anchors with mind-bending card tricks

[@kurigohan1010]

thats why i love a self-working card trick, so easy yet powerful

[@leotang2818]

I was in the audience when I attended one of his shows back when it was still at the Mirage in Vegas. He either started or ended his show with this very trick !!!

[@aaabbb-py5xd]

You don't remember if it was start or end?

[@leotang2818]

@ it was several years ago lol his show is at the Venetian now. Don’t remember if he started or ended with this trick.

[@Violianom]

I did this on Penn and Teller's show and they made it a Love Story game. I crapped myself when it was the same halves haha

[@markanderson7833]

It was actually in the middle of the show.

[@aaabbb-py5xd]

And judging from the comments, I'd say you were all high during the show 🥹 like 一群脑子出游的观众

[@JoseBYOB]

That was nuts. Great trick I saw Shin in person in Vegas. I won't spoil it for anyone but the "magic" he ended the night with was one of the best gotcha moments of my life.

[@leonardschoenborn9209]

ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!!!

[@chrisb8698]

Instructions unclear, i now have a messy apartment and angry girlfriend.

[@700Ezalb]

😂😂😂

[@ishagshafeeg]

Is it good for you?

[@christopherglenndasayon1731]

Blame yourself it's just a simple instruction.

[@amaltoadie]

But you have two halves of a five of hearts or something, so it all kind of evens out, I guess.

[@joe9028]

I can’t believe that actually worked for me. Crazy yo!

[@gsmrg]

It is self working card trick. When you split cards and put on top of each other, each half was 4 cards away from its other half. Now when you do cut shuffle, you just rotate cards without changing sequence. This fact is exploited to reach to other half after hiding first half. I'm much more impressed with slight of hands. Shin is master at that.

[@t3471]

That never gets old! 🪄😅

[@markanderson7833]

I went to his show at the Mirage and he did this trick with the entire crowd. Amazing.

[@HeadoftheSeniorClass]

Worked! Great trick, great magician.

[@MotoJitsu]

I literally did it and it was matched....that's actually crazy. Wow

[@eredinbreaccglas3935]

Are you serious 😂

[@wimmieondatrack271]

@@eredinbreaccglas3935 yes

[@artworldcreator]

Shin Lim is the very very best close up magician in the world

[@thecharmingvoice]

how many magicians do you know?

[@MyTardisGoWhoosh]

You should look up Markobi

[@TrollAlert-xv6qg]

@@thecharmingvoicenil

[@tapmaan6150]

@@thecharmingvoiceExactly! There are hundreds of magicians who are better, but they have to leave their computers to see them.😊

[@thecharmingvoice]

@@tapmaan6150 nobody knows tomy wonder f.e., because most of people only knows the "americas got talent" magicians and they think thats it lol. There are so many talented artists in the magician world. Google Bill Malone and then you will see what it means to have an own style and an own personality in magic

[@simply-tom]

It's actually logic and number patterns, but Shin discovered the sequence and used it has part of his trick. Amazing! This guy is definitely next level.

[@Ferexxxx]

But they all had free choice on how to cut the cards or am I missing something

[@Ledman301]

@@Ferexxxxyour missing something.

[@Ferexxxx]

@@Ledman301 yh I figured it out It's cheeky though

[@mlippo65]

He discovered nothing! There is a magician (in Europe, but I shan't mention his country) who oughta be thanked by thousands of magicians around the world (including myself) for his absolute genius!!! I shan't mention him, just because I'm afraid everyone would go and look up this trick! Thank you! You know who you are!

[@gsmrg]

When you split cards and put on top of each other, each half was 4 cards away from other half. (Any shuffling before was irrelevant). Now when you cut shuffle, it just rotates the card from top to bottom without changing sequence. So still each half is 4 cards away from other half. Once you hide the card, you know other half is 4th from top. Now just need to give fake choice to audiance to reach to that card (if audiance select card you ask them to discard that or keep it, audiance feels they selected card, but magician decides if to keep or discard) I'm more impressed with slight of hand of Shin. He's master magician at that.😊

[@pebbleschan6085]

Shin uses his hair for misdirection. 😂

[@servHis221]

😄😄😄😄

[@petercozzaglio6070]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Jorge-rw6nz]

I like how Shin's hair fits in with everyone else's crazy hair except theirs is for a costume 😂

[@alonzotanner1226]

Saw this guy with a girl I was dating back in 2020. Dude was great. He really knows how to rouse the audience and make a show just about card tricks fun and interesting.

[@mileone734]

I saw his show at the Venetian Hotel. Absolutely amazing show!!

[@theynetworks3983]

He is amazing!!!!

[@Kanoog]

FOR THOSE CURIOUS: The name of this trick is called 'Selling Decks of Cards"

[@kulasbukid]

Shin lim is not just a magician he also a bussiness man. Im pretty sure his sell of deck of cards that day go up 📈😂

[@bdeely]

That was INSANE!

[@TS-1267]

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[@tjwarp576]

That's unreal!!! Wow!

[@Bobbshu1]

Shin Lin is just amazing and I am completely enthralled with his magical moves.

[@danyoungrasshopper3008]

I am enthralled you knew what enthrall means.

[@mafyind]

@@danyoungrasshopper3008😂

[@magnusfelaz1730]

its liM not liN

[@SYEP]

I was following with my own deck of cards until he mentioned to rip them all. lol no thanks

[@SYEP]

Pretty cool trick though!

[@Light23K]

Come in it’s not that expansive.

[@lifesabeach5405]

Do it

[@firefox2462]

SAMMME bro😅 I only had my souvenir deck from Yosemite National Park so I grabbed those and then he said rip em. I was like 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@skraa6603]

​@@Light23Kwhat if bro is using a virtuoso or fontaine deck of cards

[@turtleman2370]

I saw Penn and Teller in Melbourne about 2 years ago, they did this same trick

[@michaelworsham2724]

Penn and Teller did this trick on the Tonight show roughly 8 years ago, but the tearing and shuffling procedure was very different from what Shin Lim did, and I expect was different when you saw them, even though the end is the same.

[@carlofederico7778]

Loving the foxy cleopatra costume

[@JT--XL365]

remember when a magician says to pick any card you want its the card he wants you to have.

[@hade666_01]

not always, there's tons of card tricks that don't require a force at all, including this one

[@Cardguy18]

@@hade666_01 Well to be clear, the first part of the trick with the four jacks requires a force.

[@pryguy1099]

Amazing

[@gravitv252]

He's good

[@SoulkingBrook3849]

Because I didn’t want to rip 4 of my cards I actually did this with 8 cards except making sure I had 2 cards that were the same and simulated the ripping and placing them on top of the cards, AND IT STILL WORKED!!😂😂

[@lusario2650]

Did the same

[@gsmrg]

Great idea

[@gsmrg]

When you split cards and put on top of each other, each half was 4 cards away from other half. (Any shuffling before was irrelevant). Now when you cut shuffle, it just rotates the card from top to bottom without changing sequence. So still each half is 4 cards away from other half. Once you hide the card, you know other half is 4th from top. Now just need to give fake choice to audiance to reach to that card (if audiance select card you ask them to discard that or keep it, audiance feels they selected card, but magician decides if to keep or discard) I'm more impressed with slight of hand of Shin. He's master magician at that.😊

[@albertobonferroni8466]

the real shock was that 3 of the 4 cards I picked were exactly the 3 J showed at the beginning.. no chance that could have been predicted

[@ShadowRap-y5l]

Seen him at the mirage 😊

[@dokc6996]

Before Shin Yim’s act, I don’t why but I felt like I’m in the 80s’

[@prajwal07sharma]

the last thing you wanna dress in an interview is as "The Joker". (I love the movie and the character and Shin, the joke is just humourous so I have to say it)

[@Clonest]

the key detail here being that his costume is NOT based on the Joaquin phoenix version.

[@YSC2013]

My all time best. Shin limm. 😊

[@melodicchronic5181]

Did he really expect people at home to rip their cards???

[@Light23K]

I would. How much is a deck? $2 $3? It’s cheap.

[@Kanoog]

@@Light23K It's called inconvenience, taking my deck of cards and tossing it in the trash means I have to buy another one.

[@Light23K]

@@Kanoog for a great magic trick I’ll do it. Do I really need another deck tmw? Nope

[@yCantiLogOn]

Perhaps write some cards on paper

[@Light23K]

@ inconvience to some but not many. Not everyone play cards everyday. They can easily pick a deck up when shopping for other things.

[@marjorinestotch4093]

That is freaking insane

[@leokimvideo]

Did Beetlejuice 2 bomb, Im seeing it in the DVD dump bins already

[@BaronVonCarrot]

Before this trick begins. Shin gave us a deck of cards and told us to read this paper.

[@jakewood5475]

I was in awe...No way.

[@Motogp2233]

The goat

[@daxhowwedo]

I followed all the intructions and i ended at the tearing part 😂😂😂 i just borrowed mine! 😂😂😂

[@ChintanCG]

Is this sponsored by the card manufacturers to get us to buy new decks😂

[@jsLogics]

aWesomeeeeeeeee~

[@tdawes33]

a dove literally flew out of my butt when i tried this

[@Tom13501]

Wow

[@PepijnSchoemakerWebinars]

Shin always reminds me of Michael Jackson.

[@mlippo65]

Same skin colour, eh?

[@highlineR32]

Never trust if the “any card” is a J, Q or Ace 😂😂

[@stickyrice2141]

I did it with four Pokemon cards LOL, it worked LOL

[@jeffpierce3436]

What a shin show! 😂

[@georgeyounts9391]

Woody Aragon

[@matthewshapiro8047]

You gotta love it

[@VancouverMagic]

Similar to Penn & Teller

[@mlippo65]

@@VancouverMagic See my comment above. Penn & Teller did not create this miracle.

[@tminusoftexas3224]

Beetle juice looks like a drunk from a circus

[@billdivine9501]

Don’t tell Al to cut one! 😂

[@kpv8975]

He is a GOAT

[@gamerboy0747]

I really want to know how to do this it's a really good trick

[@jtmarcel640]

he has different instructions depending on what they pick. at the end, if she said "bottom" he would have said put the bottom card in your other pocket or something and throw the top card away, .etc.

[@Cesnna172]

Penn and Teller Love me card trick with some variations

[@lanzer22]

I'm starting to think that there's a rat living inside his hair who's doing all the tricks like Ratatoullie. That'll explain the tricks, AND the hair. :)

[@eonryan8491]

1:50

[@nuvamusic]

The actual “counting” (math) starts after the ripping of the cards

[@michealhernandez4442]

Woe you owe me a deck of cards

[@michaelworsham2724]

You can use the rest of the deck to do this with your friends or family.

[@mj23allday247]

I gotta go see him in person. BTW - what happened to Al's voice?

[@the1337fleet]

Is this a version of the Gilbreath principle?

[@pengseahang946]

😮😱😂😂😂😂👍❤❤❤

[@MMoer]

I don't know how it works but it's probably math.

[@17trunX]

Yeah, it is

[@Enzo__316]

It’s probably a self working trick.

[@0kaznuan999]

Definitely and he probably would’ve gave different directions depending on how many cards the hosts wanted to cut each rd

[@stevecmk]

Unbelievable!

[@noharahien]

you can do this trick on your own by following these steps: - let everyone have n cards - tear them in half, place one pile on top of the other - let people pick a number in 1 to n+1 - if people say anything but n-1, let them cut that number of cards (move from top to bottom), go back to previous step - if people say n-1, let them movethat number of cards from top to the middle - let people put the top card in their pocket - use any excuse you can think of to let people discard all cards, except the bottom one - that one should match perfectly with the one in their pocket believe me or not, it's just math.

[@icarus-wings]

Al Roper makes a great Beetlejuice.

[@luongv427]

How?

[@lastsonofkrypton25]

Wooo how you did that? Wouldn't you like to know weather boi?

[@przemysawostek7002]

No way, omg.

[@maesilangeli]

The secret is on his hair

[@jasonduvall5467]

Magnets

[@brunoduraes6334]

1:53, hey maaaan, dont do that so obvious. You looked

[@Yog_Los_Mas]

I played along up to the part where he says to tear apart the cards. NOPE nuh uh

[@stewartdowbiggin2337]

when did al joker turn into tom waits?

[@gridirongodsTV]

Where is David Blaine when you need him?

[@casanico2082]

Os Al Roker in white face?

[@murdermuseum8280]

it worked on me at home! and im a magician.

[@MultiFrayne]

I didn’t want to rip my cards

[@michaelweston2285]

i ended up with a Uno card. i think i messed something up.

[@lilin3005]

🤣🤣

[@Gnaiss]

do you realize that Shin is wearing Joker's ooutfit :)

[@fastracer2369]

Good math

[@danf8047]

If you watch really closey when he tears the card, he tears it well and I have no idea how he did that trick, sorry.

[@164procar4]

Is this show called "the crazy hair" show?

[@King_SPL]

no way

[@sachinrobot4733]

He looks like Michael Jackson

[@VinahouseHD7758]

majic joker hahaha

[@worldweeklynewz5818]

What’s up with Al Roker doing whiteface? I am so awake and up on the times and I also identify as offended by this.😂

[@gorilla2318]

What I wanna know is who the heck came out with this tricks???????

[@richardsonrichly8456]

This doesn’t feel contemporary, Feels like it was from like 15 years ago

[@Billy_Bull_Sheeter]

I taught him. He was one of my finest students. I basically invented magic

[@shivaagarwal4093]

At home you can use piece of papers to do the trick

[@petehogan7299]

you can see when he told her to take the card he clearly looked at the next card invisible deck.

[@pahanin2480]

Those who failed, you have adhd

[@eugeneteo9664]

total insane

[@nadecha5326]

I was good to go until he said tear the cards, nah I’m good

[@espo7182]

The Jack's are planted people. He picked the first 3 on his own, saw where the 4th was and stopped there, no matter when she said stop. That's why you riffle and don't let them choose. The rest of the trick is all math. He is the best of the best today though. Maybe only David Blaine and a few others are as smooth and convincing as him.

[@sapphir8]

Or you ask to choose a different card. Or have them riffle until the end.

[@stlouisix3]

Shin Lim is a sorcerer. Shim employs dæmonic witchcraft, wizardry and sorcery. That's the only explanation for shin lim's præternatural magic 🎩 ✨️

[@TrollAlert-xv6qg]

Al is wearing white face

[@ericlester5033]

Impossible

[@yangpeter1691]

Department of Magic is not doing their job for sure

[@carlnaugler6285]

If you’re trying to look like you had a Extremely bad hair day you really are doing great at that stay away from electrical units however absolutely love your programs and your shows and your magic is phenomenal but the hair you got to do something professional with it please