CINCINNATI - Bryan Berg holds a Masters degree in Design Studies from Harvard, but most of the world knows him by his web site, http://www.cardstacker.com .

The Santa Fe man holds the Guiness World Record for the tallest house of cards ever built, a nearly 26-foot tower built from 1,100 decks of cards in 1992. Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati hired Berg to build a Cincinnati skyline at the casinos front entrance. He figures it will take about 40,000 cards. All but the Great American Tower at Queen City Square was in place by Wednesday morning.

By Friday, it will be gone. The casino is filming the construction project with a time-lapse camera. It will use the footage in a commercial to promote its $3 million summer giveaway, in which three Horseshoe customers will win $1 million each in July, August and September.

Horseshoe hired Berg to build Cleveland's skyline last week and Cincinnati this week.

Berg said his card creations are accomplished with no bending, no folding, no tape and no glue. Every seven decks of cards weighs a pound. So, its gravity not glue that holds everything in place.

"Believe it or not, the Scripps Center was kind of the hardest because it has these really subtle curves," he said. "To get those just right takes some time."

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