Magician Shin Lim Stuns TODAY’s Craig Melvin With Card Tricks

We're back and we are ready to be amazed because we are celebrating National Magic Week with two-time America's Got Talent winner, Shin Lim. Love this guy. So the sleight of hand artist here, he's drawn more than a million fans from around the world to his Las Vegas residency, Limitless. Which is now in its second year. And this morning he's bringing a little magic to Studio 1A. Shin, good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. Thanks Dylan. Thanks for having me. It's been about two years since the last time I was here and then announced it. It's been crazy. How's it going? So good. I'm so grateful to be performing. Vegas has taught me so much as a performer. I've grown even more, I feel like. So it's awesome. Because, you know, what I do is very small. It's very minimal. But I feel like Vegas taught me how to be a better performer. And to magnify whatever I have. Well, what you have right now here is a deck of cards, brand new, that we purchased. Have you never heard of these? Yeah, I forgot to bring my cards. Okay, so what are you going to show us today? Here, Craig, can you? I don't want to touch. Open up the cards. Take out the cards. You've got Mr. Skeptical over here. I want you to think. I need to roll my sleeves up. I need you to think of a card. Any card. You can say it out loud. Here, I'll grab the cards out. There's a couple of ad cards, but just say it out loud, any card, because you're going to sign it. Yeah, yeah, with a Sharpie. I'm pretty sure. I forgot a Sharpie as well. Wow, you really came prepared. No, I did not. Yeah, yeah, okay, good. All right. Any card, go ahead. So I'm going to say Seven of Clubs. Seven of Clubs. Do you want to change your mind, or are you good? No, I don't change my mind. Okay, the Seven of Clubs is somewhere inside those cards, yes? Okay, but watch. If I can do something interesting. If I just snap my hands, Craig, at Seven of Clubs, check. Is it gone? Is the Seven of Clubs gone? Check the deck. You just opened it. Look through it. Look through the card. No, no, you have to flip the card. Yeah, I think you do the other way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jokers are on top. Jokers are on top. Yeah, yeah. Look through every single card, Seven of Clubs. Yeah, because Dylan is right here behind your hair. Here. No, no, no. I was not. I swear, Dylan is not in on this track. I was trying to be. I was looking at everything. Okay, okay. She has the worst possible angle, by the way. You'll probably see a little bit of it. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no. Okay, you want a different card? You can do the seven if you want. Or you can choose a different one. Can I pick a different card? Pick a different card, Craig, because this time you're going to sign it. I'm going to sign the card? You're going to sign it. I don't have to show it to you. I mean, because you're signing it, Craig, it doesn't matter anymore. So just, it doesn't matter. Okay, sign it, and maybe in the white area, whatever, anywhere. Sign it anywhere, okay. Just, you know, so it's visible and they can see the card. Okay, good. There you go. Very good. There you go. Camera's got this. Now, I'm actually going to perform something called the ambitious card routine. The ambitious card is something that magicians all do when they first start magic. It's almost like a rite of passage in order to become a great magician. You have to have a good ambitious card. So this is kind of like a level one trick. Yeah? All right. Why are you looking around at me? This is something you might get on it too. Watch, Craig. What was this, Jack of what? Diamonds? Yeah. It's about, how many cards would you say is down? 25 cards. Push it all the way in. All the way in. Flush. Good. It's in the middle, right? Yeah, roughly. Roughly. If I can control it, uh, Dylan, top or bottom, totally up to you? Bottom. Bottom. Your choice, right? Yeah. Jack of diamonds? Yep. Dylan said bottom. I don't want to touch it. You check the bottom card. Look at the bottom, show it to the camera. Wow. I did not, I swear. I'm not in on it. Here, well, we'll try it. No, no, no, look, Craig, look, it's not like there's a bunch of, uh, there's not like a bunch of jack of diamonds in the deck, right? No. No, that's the only one. That's the only one, right? It's the only one I saw. Let's keep looking through. There is none. Okay. Okay. Al, you try this time. Okay. Because maybe Dylan's not on it, I promise you. I know he's not on it. He's not sharp enough to be helpful. I'm gonna riffle down, Al. You just say stop at any moment. Stop. Right here, yes? Yep. Right here. I'm not doing anything funny. No, you're not. Take the next three cards. Okay. Take the next three cards and show it to the camera. How many jacks are there in a deck? There's four jacks. Wait, wait, no, no, it's all about control of the card. It's all about control of the card. Here, name a card, Al, any card. Ace of clubs. Ace of clubs, okay, okay, we'll grab the ace of clubs right over here. This is not the jack, obviously. No, no, no. We all know that's not the jack. If I can shake it like this, watch. One, two, three, and it can change right into the jack of diamonds. It's a sign one, it's a sign jack. You can check it, Craig, this is yours to check. Yeah, it's mine. Yeah, it's yours. No, no, maybe I wasn't being fair up here. I need to bend the card. I need to bend the card Well, let me bend this Jack. Okay, so you can all see it the entire time in the middle, right? It's bent Yeah, I see that. It's bent Bent and if I snap. No, not yet. No, you're not in it. Watch the Jack. Watch the Jack one more time I need to do more of a bend. All right, sir Let's do it one more time. Can we see that? Okay, this is a better angle. One two, three Check it. Check it. Check it. Check it show Shut up, shut up, shut up. Wow, and there's the signature, right? Yeah, yeah, one final time, one final time. I wasn't being fair, you know. Oh, ----, now we're going to burn you at the stake, buddy. I wasn't being fair, you know why? Because, look, the jack is about halfway into the deck. Push it all the way in, Craig, all the way in. I'll be as fair as possible. The card, your jack of diamonds is not on the bottom. It's not on top. So it's somewhere inside the middle of the deck, but I did not roll my sleeves up. That's the fair. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And it has your name on it. Why don't you take it? I'm done with this. Why don't you touch it? I am done. It's clean. I brushed my teeth, so it should be good. Thank you. That was amazing. Yeah. Amazing. That was wild. Folks, we were sitting here, could not figure it out. I'm literally staring over your shoulder. How do you do it, Mike? You know how to do it. That was incredible. Guys, you have to check out Shin Lim's show, Limitless, at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Tickets are on sale now. Hey, thanks for watching. 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