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Students at Lynn Camp High School in Knox County were attempting to set a world record for the largest deck of cards. Guinness's Web site lists the largest at just under three and a half feet high.

Lynn Camp students play a big game of rummy with world's largest cards

LYNN CAMP — Students at Lynn Camp High School may have played their way into the record books Wednesday with a game of rummy using giant cards 7 feet, 4 inches tall by 4 feet wide that they made from fiberboard.

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