Have you ever tried to stack cards? What is the tallest structure you have been able to build with your cards? How patient have you been every time your tower of cards has fallen?
You have to agree with me that card stacking is a fun hobby, especially when you can build a three or four story building.
Do you know what the Guinness World Record for the tallest house of cards in the world is? Say something… ten?… fourteen?… The Guinness World Record for the world’s tallest house of cards is over twenty-five feet tall. Yes, it’s amazing, and I found it hard to believe that a structure over twenty-five feet tall could be built without any manipulation, such as taping, gluing, folding, or folding the cards. NOTHING.
Just playing cards standing up without any cheating involved. To obtain a Guinness World Record, you must follow a very strict verification and validation process, and one of the Guinness World Record Committee members will meticulously verify that your world record attempt follows his or her strict rules.
I was in shock when I first looked at the picture of the world’s tallest house of cards. Over twenty five feet of stacked cards…
The Guinness World Record Cardstacker holder is Brian Berg of Ames, Iowa. He won his first Guinness World Record for the world’s tallest house of cards in 1992, when he was just seventeen years old. Since then, he has toured the United States and the world, appearing on top television shows, magazines, etc…
Stacking cards is a hobby that became Berg’s full-time job. He is regularly named on TV shows, large corporations like Walt Disney Studios, and gets paid to teach card stacking, do projects for companies, science museums, etc.
Berg started stacking cards as a hobby when he was 8 years old. His grandfather introduced him to card stacking as a fun hobby, but he didn’t teach her any of the construction techniques Berg uses now. It was after years of experimentation that Berg developed his own construction techniques.
Brian Berg has also put all his experience in stacking cards into a book called “Stacking the Deck” (ISBN-978-0743232876). In his book, Berg reveals all of his tricks and techniques learned through his own experiences and countless hours building gigantic structures with playing cards and endless patience.
