Hi. Congratulations. You looked genuinely shocked. I was. You really didn't think
you were going to win? No idea. Well, we all
thought Courtney was going to win from the get-go. Yeah. She was pretty good. She was amazing. There was a lot of
good talent this year. Yeah. So what are you going to
do with a million dollars? Well, I have a crummy car. So I need to get a
new car with that. You could buy a bunch of cars. Yeah. And probably save a couple
of dollars here and there. And actually, I had a couple
of friends recently struggling with brain cancer,
so I think I want to try to contribute a
little bit into research and development and
try to figure it out so we can fight that. Wow. Good for you. All right. I love magic, and
you're amazing. So show us stuff. All right. I have a deck of
cards over here. All right. Do you want to shuffle it? Can you just give it a mix? Yeah, sure. You can examine the cards. Oh, you trust me. I mean, yeah, because you
know, what's it going to be? I mean, you can mess it
up some more if you want. It makes my job harder, so-- All right. Then I'll just-- You want to look
at all the cards? Or are you happy? Mm, that's good. All right, cool. All right, cool. I'll take the cards. All right. You done? She's not done. She's going to make
this really hard. All right. All right, now you're done. I'm going to ripple
down the deck. You just say stop
anytime you want, OK? Stop. Right there? Yep. Remember the card. Yep. Don't forget it. Got it. You forget it, the
whole trick is over, OK? All right. Can I have your hand? All right, cool. Shuffle the cards. All right. All right, good? Yep. All right, cool. Now we're all going to
try to find her card. But we're going to
try to do it together. And it's not going to
really be a magic trick. So don't try to figure this out. It's going to be
more of a game, OK? We're going to try to-- I love games. --find her cards together. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's like a poker game, almost. Oh, I love poker. Is there money involved? No. Absolutely no money, OK? I'm going to try
my best to make-- Is there alcohol involved? Yeah, if you want. Is there alcohol? No? Right after this, OK? OK. All right, so you
picked the card, so you get to point to a pile. This one. All right. You can go grab it. OK. Point to one. That one. This one? All right. I won't do anything
funny, all right? [INAUDIBLE]? Well, I only have two choices. I guess this one. All right. Here you go. All right, so everyone
grabbed a pack. This is what we call a gambler's
grip, or a dealer's grip. At a casino, this is
actually a dealer's table. You can try dealing
the cards like that. Go ahead, give it a shot. All right, so we can
shuffle the cards like this. And then you can
deal and shuffle, deal whenever you want. But make sure you're dealing
in a nice little pile. You can even deal multiple
cards like four or five cards, or even all your cards
if you're lazy like me. And then, done. Oh, wow. Very good. Oh, we just shuffle? Yeah. And then deal. You can take your time. It's OK. All right, grab your-- yeah. OK, grab your cards. Grab your cards. Like it matters. All right. Now, you guys play poker, right? Yes. Sure. Yeah. In poker we burn the top card. Go ahead and burn the
top card right there. Oops. It's all right. But in this game, you can burn
as many top cards as you want. Go ahead. Don't throw all your
cards, obviously, but I'm going to stop here. You're going to keep
going if you want. It's your choice, your life. OK. Oh! Woops! You did it to. That's fine. All right. I have some left. Count how many you have. One, two-- One, two-- Deal. Deal down. --three, four, five. Yeah, go ahead and deal. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven. All right, cool. We all have a different
amount of cards. I would say we threw about
half your cards here. Would you say that, Ellen? Oh, yes. About 50%. Mm-hm. So for the first time, because
they don't know your card, what was your card? Six of diamonds. Six of diamonds? You shuffled the packet. I have no idea what your
card is or where it was. The chances of the six
of diamonds being in here is about 50%. But what if I told you-- and by the way, you
picked your pile. I didn't force you in any way. No, not at all. You did not. What if I told you that six of
diamonds landed in your pile somehow? Would you be impressed? I sure would. Yeah. That's like a 20% chance, right? That's why we booked you. Thank you. What if I told you it was
at the top of your pile? Right now? Right now, after
you shuffled it. Yeah, and especially
because you told me to stop when I wanted
to stop throwing things in, it'd be pretty impressive. Lift up the top card. No. Oh my god. [INAUDIBLE] We're playing poker, right? Poker is the best hand's a
four-of-a-kind, that's what-- Right. I have a six. Nuh-uh. And you're going to
have a six as well. Yep. Wanda, lift up your top card. OK, see? See, this is why
I don't like you. This is why I don't like you. Wow! Wow!
yep. After watching this one I think i got it. If you look closely around the 2 minute mark you can clearly see that I have no clue whats going on
This is 100% not a forced pick. He straight-up does a pinky peak at the card to see it, he just does it so smooth most people wouldn't know. It's a classic magician's move to not force a card but still know what they selected.
I won't spoil the trick, but I know many feel it was forced because of how he brings the 6s up, in reality, when he is looking at the face cards and splitting them into different piles, he is actually ALSO finding the other sixes (and placing them into a very important position).
It's a really well done trick and he plays it off perfectly, much better than most.
This is one of the reasons I really like Shin Lim, as a hobbyist magician myself, is that he is somehow able to use the simplest moves that every magician knows, but yet still catches me off guard. He takes simple moves and makes them seem unbelievable. A lot of magicians sometimes makes the mistake of thinking that because something is not super hard sleight of hand wise, or super physically challenging, it won't be as impressive. Hell, Shin Lim does double lift flips all the time (a relatively simple move) and the way he presents it is so convincing and clever that it is his presentation that really sells the trick. He doesn't really even do any of that this time either. It's astonishingly simple. And, that's what makes his presentation so beautiful.
The guy is the Michael Jackson of the magic world. I am not sure people realize this, but Shin Lim is going to be as big, if not bigger, than David Copperfield ever was.
A bonus trick! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNFWj8ROOgs
I figured out how to do it finally....amazing trick
It’s a pretty simple trick, but at the start he somehow figures out which card Ellen draws and that’s the part that I don’t get.
I get how he does everything besides guessing what her card was. So well done.
What I like about this trick is it is self working and anybody can do it. It requires pretty much no sleight of hand, especially since you can use simpler methods to figure out the chosen card. His method makes it a little bit difficult. But there are quite a few other methods that are easier. But even though it is so simple, IT BLOWS MINDS THE FIRST TIME AROUND. Like people have no idea. After watching this trick a few times and figuring it out, I just did this to my roommates and they were flabbergasted.