'The World's Best' Magician Justin Flom's iPhone Card Trick

James Corden welcomes magician Justin Flom, competing on The World's Best, to perform some insane card tricks that leave Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Rebel Wilson and The Late Late Show audience stunned. You might want to grab a friend and a deck of cards to try one of the tricks yourself.

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[oath]

Justin: “The magic will work wherever you are.”
Me, at home: *excitedly grabs cards*
Justin: *tears cards*
Me: *puts away cards*

[DJSwedee]

I actually went looking for cards for like 10 minutes... found them and came back, then this dude tellin me to rip em. I ain't ripping my cards, i clearly have only 1 deck if it took me this long to find them!

[So.cheese]

I love how all of us are like "I ain't ripping my cards lmao"..! UNITE BROKE BROTHERS AND SISTERS!! 😂

[utkarshranjan]

Well it's pure mathematics and brain diversion. Remember we all took four cards, tore them into half and then put right one above left or vice versa. So now it has 8 half parts (top one is card 1 and bottom one is card 8). So remember card 1 is the other half of card 5, card 2 Is the other half of card 6 and so on for card 3-7 and card 4-8.
Now he takes out first 3 cards and put that in middle means card 8 is at the 8th position only which is last and card 4 comes at top which is the other half of card 8.
Now he takes the card 4 (which is on top) to his pocket.
Now the 8th card is at the last one only but it's number changed to 7 as there are 7 cards only in our hands as we have taken one in pocket.
Very often he is saying to take Max 3 cards or none and putting them in middle. While doing all this, position of last card is not getting altered. The actual 8th card is still at last. And then he trades the card, still the position of last card (original card 8) is not getting altered. "Whatever things he is saying is just to divert ur mind so that u can realise that so many things r going on".
And now he starts the game of loves me and loves me not. Remember he is putting odd number as loves and even number as loves me not. And then puts back the odd number card at back and drops the even number.
Here is the catch, the original 8th card never faces the even number, it always comes at odd number so he is always putting that at back and finally only that card remains at last and then he matches with the card 4 which he put initially in his pocket. And we all know card 4 and card 8 r the match since beginning.

[blahzeknowles]

It has something to with math. I’m bad at math so I can’t prove it but i know it has something to do with math. Anything suspicious always involves math

[evelynlo]

the 4 cards trick works like this,
assume you have card A, B, C, D, you tear them into halves, put them one pile on top of the other, so it becomes A1B1C1D1A2B2C2D2
take the first 3 cards out, and put them anywhere in the middle, so it becomes D1-sthsth-D2 (e.g. DABABCD)
take D1 away and keep it under the butt, and you have 7 cards left
then take any cards away and put it back but always in the middle, so D2 will always be the last card
then when you play the "loves me and loves me not game", the first around you'd be keeping card #1, 3, 5, 7; then #3 & 7, then #7, which is card for my poor English

[luke.hutchinson]

For those who really care, the last trick is not about maths. If you tear four cards the bottom card is the key. You put the 4 half’s on top of the others but then take off 3 and put them in the middle. You take off the fourth and sit on it, this card matches the bottom of the deck you’re holding.
Note that every time you put the cards in the middle, the bottom never changes. As you remove cards “love me not” or put them to the bottom “love me”, it works out that the last card is still the bottom one, matching the one you’re sat on.
Very simple but very effective in the way it’s presented and clever with an audience!

[giesiherrera]

Justin: James, have I touched you?
James: Not at all, not once... Did you mean emotionally? 😂😂

[Destiny-chuc]

*'Shut the front door"*
What a perfect Slang

[pnoipr]

If you look closely at his left hand while he is recording the video from 3:45-3:50, you still won’t have any idea how he was doing it.

[kieleahar]

I love how genuinely excited James Gets watching magicians and mind readers etc.
it’s adorable!

[Discoveringbandsbymichaelnagy]

*Its amazing how these magicians are able to pull these tricks off!!*

[rabin_]

"Shut the front door"
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*I AM DEAD😂😂😂😂*

[eveniu]

The card trick actually worked. Wow. I just tried it with my mom while watching the video. There’s must be some math behind it.

[joselleformaran]

Love how Priyanka hid the half of her card in her chest area.. Hahahhaha!! Queen..

[vicentesteidle]

Lets not forget that James said “screen grab” instead of “screenshot”

[titussimon]

I went looking for cards for like an hour and when I continued watching this video this says "rip them in half"! You've got to be kidding me! Naah bruh...

[samiyakhan]

Everyone in their homes taking their cards out
Justin: rips the card
Everyone:puts their cards back 🤣 can't rip the card

[Handlehandle]

I just ripped up small pieces of paper lol too poor to rip my cards

[cheshire]

*idc if it's actually just a simple math or whatever but we gotta admit that he's smart*