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Largest house of cards
Record
218,792 cards
- Holder
- Bryan Berg
- Year
- Standing since
- 2010 (16 years)
What to remember
Bryan Berg needed 218,792 playing cards, more than 4,000 decks, to build his replica of the Venetian Macao in 2010. The work took 44 days.
A house of cards, also called a card tower or card castle, is made by stacking playing cards on top of each other, often in the shape of a pyramid. The phrase also dates back to 1645 as an expression for a structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “House of cards” (revision used 1369988459). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Merzperson at English Wikipedia, Photo licensed under Public domain (Wikimedia Commons).
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