Patient schoolboy assembled a huge house of cards

15-year-old Indian teenager Arnav Daga became the owner of the world record. A schoolboy spent 143,000 playing cards to create several famous buildings in his hometown.

Arnav Daga, a 15-year-old from India, took 41 days to build replicas of four buildings using playing cards, breaking a Guinness World Record in the process. The completed project has a total length of 12 meters, a height of 3.5 meters and a width of 5 meters.

Daga said he used about 143,000 maps to build replicas of important buildings and monuments in his hometown of Kolkata: the Writers' Building, the Shaheed Minar, the Salt Lake City Stadium and St. Paul's Cathedral.

The teenager shared that the saddest event in the process of work was the moment when the entire Shaheed Minar and partly the St. Paul's Cathedral collapsed.

“It was disappointing that so many hours and days of work were wasted and I had to do it all over again, but for me there was no turning back. The moment I put on the headphones and started working on the structure, I found myself in another world,” he told the press service of the Guinness Book of Records.

Arnav has been playing houses of cards since he was eight years old. He started taking it more seriously during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.