Shin Lim Performs a Mind-Blowing Optical Card Trick for Jimmy and The Roots (Extended)

Magician Shin Lim talks about his live magic residency in Las Vegas and wows Jimmy and Questlove with a mind-blowing optical card trick where he can deal the exact cards they have in mind.


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Shin Lim Performs a Mind-Blowing Optical Card Trick for Jimmy and The Roots (Extended)

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Attended a show his first week during his residency at the Mirage. I was in the 2 row and got picked for a trick. He was super nice and walked me through all the steps and it's a moment I'll never forget. His whole show was entertaining and left me speechless as well. Great performer and even better person.

[FH]

Shin Lim never ceases to amaze every time I see one of his tricks. He is incredibly good at what he does.

[anyal]

His hair is performing its own show lol

[rommboi]

My Dad was such a great magician… he just passed and now I’m seeing magic everywhere. I never see it and I see it everyday now. This guy is good ❤

[klm]

Saw Shin 3 years ago at the Mirage. Was in the back row and I still felt included!! Such a great

[King_Jonghyun]

been following shin since his penn & teller episode, so happy for his success and what he has accomplished throughout the years. a real class act ❤

[leokimvideo]

Shin Lim's one of the greatest card trick masters, so precise and fast in hiding cards

[pixelated]

so great to see him thriving to this day, I have fond memories of watching him on America's Got Talent the first time he performed!

[onzie]

I love that it takes 55 cards to do the 1-10 thing, and that's after he dropped several into his lap early on. The cards just keep coming and going and it cracks me up.

[johnnyboypv]

I first saw Shin perform as one of the acts in The Illusionists in Toronto many years ago. I was blown away by his performance then, and still am today. What a great talent, and so happy to see his career get the recognition it deserves!

[SRRecords]

6:40 - I *love* that his hands are shaking here! Some people read that as nerves, but it's not. It's adrenaline. I love the fact that he still gets overcome with adrenaline when performing!

[biancaferraz]

I love when he comes to the show, he’s the best

[alvinz]

Wow..Shin lim never disappointed every time he doing the magic trick.. I'll give 10/10 for me👌👌 what a masterclass magician 🔥✨

[marcteleki]

He is genuinely the best magician; I absolutely love his work.

[josephhan]

I forget about this amazing magician, and he magically appears in my youtube front page every once in awhile. HES AMAZING

[MikeS-umnm]

Magicians can REALLY be something else! Some of what they do borders on impossible, or MIRACULOUS, in other words, REAL MAGIC. Either the 6 of spades was planted before the trick, or it teleported into the pocket. I'm pretty sure it was planted but that can't explain everything else Shin did with the deck! That was awesome. I went to a company Christmas party with maybe 100 people, and they hired some regular, young magician that definitely wasn't famous, but the tricks he did blew our minds (this was in 1985). I sat pretty close and was blown away but the magician picked my friend out of the audience and I know for a FACT that he was no plant! The magician did a trick where he broke eggs into my friends suit jacket pocket (we watched the eggs drip out of their shells), threw in some cake batter, poured milk into his pocket and stirred it with a whisk and proceeded to let it "bake" with a flashlight, and took a perfect little cake with frosting out of that pocket. My friend stood on stage feeling for a mess in his pocket, which wasn't there and stared at the magician in total disbelief. He could barely even speak when he came back to sit with us (cake in hand. We actually ate it). He was stunned and flabbergasted for the rest of the night! I sat pretty close and couldn't BEGIN to detect how that was done. That was done by a magician I'd never heard of before or since. I can't imagine the skills some of these MASTERS like shin must possess.

[dhurugovender]

There is no greater close up magician than Shin Lim. The GOAT. Wish he came to South Africa.

[messiahXspectra]

Shin is absolutely on another level. He's technique is insane.

[nhatvurchannel]

I've started watching Shin Lim when I first learned magic tricks almost 13 years ago. Since then, I've always watched every performance of Shin on any shows available: from Penn & Tellers to AGT. I'm so happy that he won AGT not only once but twice. Only Shin could win AGT after Marc Franco in AGT 2014. Eversince then, Shin continues to thrive and shine bright on his career path. Shin - you've done a great job that make people entertained, laughing hard & smile a lots. Tbh, 10 years ago I watched some of Shin's tutorials to do some magic tricks just like him but I gave up eventually as they're difficult to practice.

[_Shinobi]

I love him sm I’ve looked into booking a trip to Vegas just to see him