An American man has earned himself a Guinness World Record after he built the world's largest ever house of cards.

Bryan Berg, 34, an architect, used 218,792 cards on a giant replica of China's Venetian Macau hotel.

His effort, now on show in the real hotel, weighs 44st and is held together without the aid of glue or tape.

If laid tip-to-tip, the cards would stretch more than 10.5 miles, and Berg spent 44 painstaking days building the model on Macau's Cotai Strip, China's answer to Las Vegas.

"This has been my most ambitious project yet. It's been like a real construction," the Sun quoted him as saying. (ANI)