Hand a deck of 52 cards to a participant.
Ask this person to shuffle the deck and then choose 2 cards.
Ask the participant to write down these 2 cards on a piece of paper and not show you the cards.
The participant puts the 2 cards and paper on the table.
The participant hands you the deck of cards.

Shuffle the cards.

Make 6 piles of 5 cards each.
Shuffle cards before making each pile.

Ask the participant to place his cards on top of any of the two piles.
Two piles now have 6 cards each.
In the video, piles 2 and 5 now have 6 cards each.

Put two of the piles that contain 5 cards each on top of the piles that have 6 cards.
You now have 2 small stacks of cards.
Make one pile of cards.

Deal the cards into two piles beginning at the left and dealing one card at a time.
Cards on the left are placed face down.
Cards on the right are placed face up.
Put the face up cards to the side.

Deal the cards into two piles beginning at the left and dealing one card at a time.
Cards on the left are placed face down
Cards on the right are placed face up.
Put the face up cards to the side.

Keep turning cards until only 2 cards remain unturned.

Ask participant to show the piece of paper where he/she had written down the chosen cards.

Turn over the 2 remaining cards.

Magic!

Watch the video.