Guinness record: World's largest house of cards

2010-03-12 04:35:40 GMT2010-03-12 12:35:40 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

Photo shows American architect Bryan Berg and his houses of cards. (CRI Online)

American architect Bryan Berg broke his own Guinness record for building the world's largest house of cards in Macao. (CRI Online)

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhuanet)--American architect Bryan Berg broke his own Guinness record for building the world's largest house of cards in Macao.

This time, he spent 44 days building Macao's landmarks of Venetian, the Plaza and Sands using 218,792 cards (4,051 decks of cards).

Overall, the composition is 10.5 m long, 3 m tall, and weighs 227 kg. The structure was constructed under the condition that the builder uses no tape, glue or any other adhesives.

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