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KCCI Archive: Man builds house of cards during 2000 Iowa State Fair

KCCI Archive: Man builds house of cards during 2000 Iowa State Fair
brian Berg knows when to hold them, when to fold them and how to keep them standing. Nothing is taped glued, bent, folded, altered. It's the real thing, as you can see in his time lapse video, he cut the first deck on the first day of the fair, has been stacking the cards into columns and walls one by one from nine a.m. To nine p.m. Every day. Since you have to have a strategy of how you're going to build each piece because for example, if I would have built the rest of the building first and then I would have tried to build the dome, I wouldn't have been able to reach it. This is no game. He works off sophisticated blueprints. So you're kind of part architect, engineer. It's only a guess engineer guessing on everything, brian aced his way into the Guinness Book of World Records and has been playing with a full deck since he can remember literally sit on my lap my table and we just, nothing like this. Of course I had no idea of developing or something like this. The bigger it gets, the more fun I'm having. Fairgoers are having fun watching. I can't believe it because I can't even shuffle. Have you had anyone come over and try to blow it down? Well, everyone jokes about it, but what they don't realize is that this building already weighs roughly £100 still his biggest worry, the wind. But in the end, when it's all up, brian will blow his house of cards down. This is going to be one of the most amazing things that I've ever built. It's gonna hurt a little bit to take it down, but I think it will still be pretty fun and pretty wild.
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KCCI Archive: Man builds house of cards during 2000 Iowa State Fair
KCCI's Cynthia Fodor interviewed Brian Berg in 2000 about his project to build a house of cards during the Iowa State Fair. The Guinness Book of World Records holder said he had been playing with a full deck of cards since he can remember. "Nothing is taped, glued, bent, folded, altered. It's the real thing," Berg said. Follow KCCI for the latest coverage of this year's Iowa State Fair.

KCCI's Cynthia Fodor interviewed Brian Berg in 2000 about his project to build a house of cards during the Iowa State Fair.

The Guinness Book of World Records holder said he had been playing with a full deck of cards since he can remember.

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"Nothing is taped, glued, bent, folded, altered. It's the real thing," Berg said.

Follow KCCI for the latest coverage of this year's Iowa State Fair.