young magician who just won

NBC's hit show "America's Got Talent."

Give it up for Shin Lim, everybody.

[ Drumroll ] [ Cheering and applause ]

Pleasure. Thank you for being here.

You are amazing.

I knew you were gonna win.

I swear. I called it.

I go, "This guy --" You've got it, man.

You won the $1 million. -Thank you, man.

-That's a big deal.

What happens now? What's the plan?

-I mean, I would love to have my own show,

in Vegas or wherever, and that would be just amazing,

to be able to perform it.

-All right. I mean, best of luck

-Thank you. -and we will come watch you.

You brought a trick for us tonight.

-Yes, I do. -Okay.

Am I involved? -Yeah.

Well, that's why you're sitting here.

-Okay, good. [ Laughter ]

Have I already done something? -Now,

-Okay. -usually, I would have you

select your favorite card or a card face-Up,

but maybe I know what your favorite card is

or something like that. It's really important

that I can't see the card at all, okay?

So we'll do it face-down.

Just point it in any direction.

-Which one's my favorite? -No, no, just point

to any direction, 'cause we're gonna do one at random.

-Sure. Right over here?

You sure? -Yeah.

-Your choice, so, you happy?

-Yeah. -All right, now,

I'm gonna look away. Take a look at the card.

-Okay. -Remember it.

-Yeah. -Don't forget it, Jimmy.

If you forget it, then the whole trick's over.

-Okay. -All right, cool.

[ Laughter ] All right.

-I'm watching you. -Now, cut the deck in half.

-Okay, here we go. -All right. You can either

keep it or do you want this one?

Doesn't matter. It's your choice;

it's your life. -It's my choice, my life.

-Yeah. What do you want?

-I don't know. I guess that one?

-That one right there? Take it; take it.

Go ahead, grab it. No, no. Grab the deck.

-Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.

-Now, hold it like this. -Uh-huh.

-All right. Can you take a couple o' cards

and bring it to the bottom? -Right.

Couple cards, bring it to the bottom.

-Very good. And then, can you take a couple cards

and put it on the table? -Uh-huh.

-Right. And then you can continue

to do the same thing. Cut to the bottom.

-Are you just teaching me how to shuffle?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]

Do it again. Put it on top, yeah, again.

-Okay, yeah. -And then, just stop

whenever you want. We're all just --

Stop whenever you want. But it's your choice again.

-It's my choice; it's my life.

[ Laughter ]

All right, so. -You wanna stop there?

-Yes. -All right. Can you put the rest

over here. -Okay.

'Cause we really don't need this.

Now, Jimmy, how many cards would you say is over here?

-I'm not you.

[ Laughter ] I don't know.

-I would say 20. -Yeah.

I'd say around there, yeah. -So there's

about a 40% chance that your card's in this pile.

-Uh-huh. -This half. Okay.

For the first time, what was your card?

It's okay if I know. It doesn't matter.

'Cause I'm not gonna do anything sneaky, at this point.

-2 of spades. -2 of spades.

You shuffled the deck. You shuffled that pile.

-Yeah, and I am not touching anything since I set it.

-I'm not gonna touch anything, either.

Would it be impressive if that 2 of spades is in that pile?

-Yeah. It would. -I mean, that's like 40%.

But what if, somehow, you shuffled it to the top?

2 of spades. [ Drumroll ]

[ Applause ] -How do you do this?

[ Laughing ] -Now, no, but, Jimmy.

I mean, maybe, maybe it was luck, right?

'Cause it could've been luck, somehow,

that it came to the top. There's a probability.

So, this time, you grab the whole deck.

Do the exact same thing.

Grab a couple of cards on the top,

put it to the bottom, and do the same thing,

and then deal us a couple cards onto the table,

and you just stop whenever you want, okay?

-And just stop whenever I want? -Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah. -Shuffle to the bottom, yeah.

-There you go. That's good. -You're good there? All right.

So, now, this is even less. Now, you know, most magicians

would have your card go to the top, at this point,

but [cluck] that's not me.

We're gonna take it to the next level.

Think of any number between one and...15.

-One and 15, okay. I thought of one.

-All right. Just say it out loud, so we can count it down.

-13. -13, all right.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

-[Chuckle] -[laughing] 11, 12, 13.

We'll put the rest of the cards over here.

So, Jimmy, we have 13 cards over here, okay?

-Yes. -Let's do this again.

You shuffled the whole deck. -Uh-huh.

-You then took a couple o' cards by random,

-[Laughing] -put into my hand.

-Yay! -You then thought of --

[ Laughter ] -You then thought of any number.

13. -I thought of any number, yeah,

and I thought -- -Lucky number 13, right?

For some reason, at the 13th position...

[ Drumroll ]

Yeah...

-Whoa! [ Applause ]

-[laughs] Yes!

You're unbelievable!

-You know -- -How the heck is...?

-We'll try something else here.

-Oh, no. -One last, just thing, okay?

One last thing. 'Cause this is a simple trick.

We don't want to do anything too complicated.

Watch. [ Laughter ]

[ Blowing ]

Tell me, Jimmy:

Do you see the 2 of spades anywhere in the deck?

-I do not see the 2 of spades.

-Oh. That's really weird.

You know what happened when I blew on it?

Can you check your pocket, your inner jacket pocket,

[ Laughter ] right over there?

-This is bizarre. -You should feel something

in there. -This is bizarre.

-The right one. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

I think it flew in there.

-In this pocket? -The inside pocket right there.

Do you feel something?

Oh, yeah. [ Drumroll ]

[ Laughter ]

-This is gonna be bizarre, dude.

[ Laughter ] Don't even --

[ Drumroll ] -Whoa!

-Oh, my goodness.

[ Cheering and applause ] [ Cymbals crashing ]

[ Outro plays ]

-We're not done yet. -What?

-We're not done yet. Take your first finger, your index finger.

Yeah, yeah. Come, sit down, sit down, yeah, okay.

-We're not done? -Yeah, no, no, we're not done.

-I got my money's worth. I'm good.

-Just put your index finger right over there.

Put your index finger pointed right over there, okay?

I want you to put all your focus on the 2 of spades. Okay.

[ Laughing delightedly ] -Ohhh!

-[Gasp] -Phew!

[ Cheering and applause ]

-Ow! -[Hissing]

-Yo. Yo. -Oh, yeah.

2 of spades.

-[Laughing] [ Cheering and applause ]

[ Cymbals clashing, outro playing ]

Dude!

That's awesome!

What is going on?!

Shin Lim, everybody!

[ Cheering and applause ]