World's biggest house of cards

17 March 2010 - 09:19
By Ananova

An American architect has set a new world record for the world's largest house of cards.

Bryan Berg created a replica of the world's biggest resort hotel - China's Venetian Macau hotel and casino - inside the real thing.

His house of cards, which weighs in at 272 kilograms and measures 10 metres by three metres, was created using 218,792 cards - 4,051 decks - and took 44 days to complete.

It sits inside the Venetian at the heart of Macau's Cotai Strip - China's version to the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada's gambling mecca.

No glue or tape was used in the construction of the replica, and Mr Berg is proud of his achievement.

"This has been the most ambitious project I have undertaken to date," he said.

"It's really like a real construction project because you have to engineer every single adjacency and every support that's supporting everything above.

"I was inspired to stack cards by my card-playing grandfather; maybe I can inspire some visitors at The Venetian Macao to try their hand at building their own structures."

Mr Berg previously held the Guinness World Record for the largest house of cards after building a replica of Cinderella's castle for Walt Disney World in 2004.

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