A face turning rhombic dodecahedron with cuts to make the number of pieces minimal.

• Inventor: Matt Shepit
• Mechanism: Edge turning hexahedron (axis system)
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: LanLan
• Year: 2008
• Original Price: $22.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

Rua is a face turning rhombic dodecahedron and has therefore an axis system identical to an edge turning hexahedron. Like all puzzles with this axis system it allows jumbling turns.
"Rua" means "two" in maori. That refers to the fact that the cuts are less deep compared to the Toru and resemble the cutting pattern of a 2x2x2.
Images 4-6 show a gift card from Matt shepit.
Images 7-8 show a tiled version of the puzzle designed by David Pitcher and printed by Jason Gavril. He presented in 2017.
Images 9-10 show a mass produced version which hit the market in 2019.
Piece type signature: HE2[F2 C2 T6][F2 C2]
Edge length: 43 mm
Weight: 89 grams

Thank you to the following people for their assistance in helping collect the information on this page: Andreas Nortmann, Michael Beach.

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