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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7510188 | Ba-Gua fortune telling game tower A Ba-Gua game tower includes a main disk and at least one secondary disk attached to the bottom of the main disk. The main disk has a disk body with a top face divided into eight divinatory sections respectively designated with a Chinese character. The secondary dis... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7371172 | Symbol display device for game machine A slot machine includes a reel assembly which has a transparent outer reel and a translucent inner reel disposed coaxially within the outer reel. The outer and inner reels are provided with first exterior surfaces on their periphery, and with second exterior surface... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357638 | Astrological horoscopes The invention provides a zodiac sign horoscope mapping device, locating the coordinate positions of the twelve zodiac signs, in a manner accurately reflecting the precession of the equinoxes. The device divides the ecliptic coordinate sphere into twelve uniform long... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7264248 | Magnetic toss game A game of dexterous skill and accuracy involving a magnetically attractive pendulous game piece and an objective target which provides a magnetic field. The game is more specifically evolved from the known ring toss game so as to provide a unique challenge and numer... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7195488 | Astrological tarot and alpha-numerology The invention provides a method determining the correspondences between astrology and tarot, wherein identifying the astrological tarot correspondences of a subject's zodiac components. The invention provides a method determining the alpha-numeric signatures of a da... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7144010 | Card game with predetermined hands in a fortune cookie A game of cards utilizing predetermined hands of cards embedded in a fortune cookie is disclosed. The invention can be used by as few as one sole player or by as many as many players as the card game itself permits to play the game. Each hand can contain as few card... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7104800 | Article and method for selection of individualized personal care products A diagnostic article and method is disclosed wherein the article includes a mirror, a plurality of attribute selection sites arranged along or associated with the mirror with each of the sites having a plurality of choice selectors, and an output for recommending at... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7048605 | Bobble head shaker A bobble head doll shaker includes a base and housing and a supporting platform that is hingedly mounted to the housing. A motor drives an agitator that lifts and releases the supporting platform, thereby imparting an oscillating motion to a bobble head doll support... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050988 | Method and apparatus for recommending selections based on preferences in a multi-user system A system for determining selections that a user is likely to be interested in. The determination is made based on the user's prior indicated preferences. The user designates his or her preferred selections as entries in a user's preference list. Entries in the user'... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040621 | Intellectual building base plate assembling game device An intellectual building base plate assembling game device comprises a triangular game tray having 28 adjacent slots which is arranged as seven lines, a first line having one slot; a second line having two slots; a third line having third slots, a fourth line having... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040993 | Amusement device with concealed images A children's amusement device has a translucent sheet with hidden images that may be revealed when illuminated from behind. The sheet is laminated with an image disposed on an interior surface of the sheet. The image is substantially hidden from view in ambient ligh... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7021627 | Game with mementos and destiny index The invention comprises a board game in which each player moves a playing piece along a continuous path, where the moves are determined by, for example, a roll of one or more dice. The path may be subdivided into spaces, some of which may require various actions by ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006001 | Speech-emitting celebration device A speech or phrase emitting celebration device, in the nature of a piñata, includes a longitudinal axial channel within which is placed a complementally sized integrated circuit (“IC”) including a library of pre-programmed voice chips having phrases selected by... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6952672 | Audio source position detection and audio adjustment A method for adjusting an operational characteristic of an audio device can include a series of steps. The method can include receiving a user spoken utterance from an audio speech source and detecting a position of the audio speech source relative to the audio devi... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6948999 | Wand toy and process A “magic mirror” wand toy has a body having a mirror element that is partially transparent. An image illuminating apparatus is mounted rearward of the mirror element. An image transport apparatus has a plurality of images that can be positioned selectively and a... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6921075 | Theme-based card games having subjective scoring criteria Card games for two or more players using a deck of cards having a common theme are disclosed. Each card of the deck is printed on one side with a different image of a person or thing that is a member of a class of items related to the theme of the game. Players scor... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6905121 | Apparatus and method for selectively permitting and restricting play in a card game Play of a game is controlled using an indicator card. The indicator card is optionally the size and shape of a playing card and may include indicia thereon. The indicator card is inserted into a randomized stack of playing cards. From the top of the stack to the ind... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6799762 | Psychic seeds entertaining growth system An Entertaining Growth System that utilizes the growth of a seedling within its design to create an entertaining and interesting device of chance. In its simplest form it allows the user to ask a “question” of the Entertaining Growth System and receive an “Ans... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6583368 | Ayurvedic scale The invention--Ayurvedic Scale--is a machine that physically represents or models the philosophical essence of the ancient science and philosophy of Ayurveda in the form of a tri-armed scale. The Ayurvedic Scale's primary function is to assist users in de... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6439571 | Puzzle This invention describes a puzzle comprising at least one fundamental unit. The fundamental unit comprises a cube with six faces. Each of the faces has two raised quadrants on diagonally opposite quadrants and two open quadrants on diagonally opposite qua... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6412775 | Compatibility-testing amusement device with an electrical circuit A compatibility-testing amusement device with an electrical circuit comprises a heart-shaped housing, which comprises an exterior surface and interior area formed therein. The interior area comprises a power source, a substantially low voltage incomplete ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6386542 | Unique puzzle and puzzle piece A puzzle piece and puzzle made from the pieces is disclosed. The puzzle piece has a center member having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface and the second surface have four long edges and four short edges. Each of the edges has a firs... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6315632 | Fortune telling toy An improved folding fortune telling toy that is made to be held in the hands of a player for manipulation into specific positions. The toy is comprised of a body portion formed by folding and reinforcing a sheet of flexible material. The body is comprised... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6299168 | Board game A board game having a future-predicting theme. The game includes a rectangular board having a sinuous path printed thereon. Along the path are a number of future-predicting stations illustrated as circles with numbered segments each of which defining a fu... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6129354 | Amusement device simulating a wishing well An amusement device for providing a printout to a user after the user throws a coin or token into the amusement device. The amusement device includes a base having an interior, a top, a bottom. The top of the base has depression extending towards the bott... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5957452 | Dice-like apparatus and method for consulating the I Ching The invention uses dice-like polyhedral solids (30) (32) (44) to generate randomly the lines of I Ching hexagrams. It produces outcomes according to a traditional and theoretically important frequency distribution. That distribution requires that the four... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5954331 | Method for playing fortune telling game The present invention relates to fortune telling game which through intuitive and interpretive input of the player, is utilized to attain personal answers to his or her fortune for the future year, week, and/or answers to involving marriage, success, weal... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5775695 | Device for providing astrological entertainment and method thereof There is provided an entertainment method of evaluating a degree of astrological attractiveness between a requesting player and one of a plurality of subject players. In one aspect of the preferred embodiment, the method includes storing sets of informati... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5692750 | Game for suggesting personality traits using colorized cards A card game which includes a set of cards, each having on one side solid color areas, dual color areas, or symbols, to provide a method for producing a hypothetical personality profile by sequentially arranging a specific number of the cards in a predeter... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5651682 | Sticks and method for consulting chinese book of changes The present invention provides a method and device for consulting and contemplating the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The invention provides six rectangular sticks having indicia on the four sides. Two of the indicia represents the changing Yang line a... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5636840 | Occult device An occult device that includes an open-top hollow rectangular box, a light source, a first light transmitting sheet, a second light transmitting sheet, and an indicator. The open-top hollow rectangular box has a pair of long sides, a pair of short sides, ... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5636839 | Group fortune telling attraction system An interactive control unit for determining inquiries to each of participants by images on the basis of inputted personal information of each of the participants, determining a next inquiry to each of the participants on the basis of a response of each of... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5599020 | Fortune telling game using cards A deck of fortune telling cards and method of playing a fortune telling game includes multiple people cards which depict people of different genders and age ranges. A person whose fortune is to be told is identified with one of the cards by writing the pe... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5518247 | New age pyramid game A pyramid game with a glass pyramid portion having a top portion, an open bottom, an inner surface, and an outer surface. A hook piece is secured to the inner surface of the top portion. A base portion is hingedly secured to the open bottom of the glass p... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5516289 | Astrological comparison wheel An astrological comparison device for providing an astrological analysis of the relationship between two people based on the specific birth information of each person. The invention includes an assembly pair of rotatably interconnected wheels including a ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5499818 | Mystical astrological predictive-type board game A mystical astrological predictive-type board game including a deck of teliotarotarcane cards including a first sub-deck of minor tarot cards, a second sub-deck of minor shustah cards, a third sub-deck of major tarot cards, a fourth sub-deck of premium ca... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5482277 | Method of operating a talking crystal ball toy A Talking Crystal Ball Toy operatively electrically effective to respond to a previously asked question in which the battery-operated circuit providing this operating mode is completed through the body of the user which significantly enhances the play val... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5479529 | Character and fortune telling method and apparatus for hobby use A character and fortune telling apparatus for hobby use comprises an input unit for generating a two-dimensional image based on a person's face, a feature extraction unit for extracting the coordinates and distances expressing the shapes and positions of ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5306007 | Astrological game apparatus The apparatus includes a game board having an annular array of wedge-shaped segments arranged to receive disc members thereon, each of the wedge-shaped segments having association relative to a contrasting astrological "house", wherein each disc is arrang... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5203564 | Methodology board for selecting gaming numbers The disclosed invention is a methodology device for use in picking gaming numbers and telling fortunes. The device consists of a board surface and a pointer device. The board surface has a plurality of mystic symbols surrounded by a first circular field o... | 04/20/1993 |
