Miracle Trump

Nintendo Miracle Trump (ミラクル トランプ) – Year: 1972

Cardboard case with blue glasses included.
As illustrated on the open box, the magic trick consists of guessing the cards in a person’s hand by looking at their backs while wearing the glasses included in the package, which are able to highlight the personalized writing on the back of each card.

The bottom of the box features a patent code “PAT: 873283” for the fan-opening packaging.
This patent was filed by Kusunoki Yukio (クスノキユキオ) in 1965 and registered in 1969. It can be seen in full (5 pages) at this link:
https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-S43-020552/22/ja

Below are three of the seven images present in the patent:

For information, in order to view the patent, the following steps were followed:

1. Start from the Japan Patent Office website:
   https://www.jpo.go.jp/
2. From there, go to
   https://www.jpo.go.jp/support/general/searchportal/index.html
   where there is a “Search tool” that points to “Patent Information Platform (J-PlatPat) (External link) Free”, search service provided by the National Institute for Industrial Property Information and Training
3. Once you reach the “Japan Platform for Patent Information” at
   https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/
   search for the Nintendo box patent which is “873283”
4. Of the two results, choose “実願昭40-035521” (the second one) and click on the link “実公昭43-020552”.