U.S. Card stacker breaks Guinness World Record in Macao

Thirty-five-year-old U.S. card stacker Bryan Berg has broken his own Guinness World Record set in 2004 by toiling over 44 days at building the largest house of free standing cards in Venetian Macao, the largest local casino, the Macao Daily Post reported on Thursday.

Using some 218,792 playing cards, Berg single-handedly built a scaled replica of the Venetian Macao complex, which organized the event. He laid the final card on the structure Wednesday, which has a total combined weight of 272 kilograms, according to the event organizer.

The secret is that every card was set up in a very systematic way, and they look a lot like grids or honeycombs, the daily quoted Berg as saying.

Berg has started stacking ever since he was eight, and he first took out a title in the Guinness World Records in 1992 at age 17 with a 4.4-meter high tower. He then set a world record in 2004 by building with cards a replica of Ciderella's Castle in Disneyland, Florida, in 2004.

The Venetian Macao Replica will be on display on the ground floor of the casino resort until March 20.

Source: Xinhua