Answer: What Comes Next? #248

The answer is A: purple diamond.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 4 things: teal diamond, purple diamond, teal diamond, green diamond. Then it starts again from the beginning.

The pattern as Python code

Here is a tiny Python program that follows the same rule. Type it into IDLE and run it to print the whole pattern, including the answer.

pattern = ["teal diamond", "purple diamond", "teal diamond", "green diamond"]
for position in range(10):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 teal diamond
2 purple diamond
3 teal diamond
4 green diamond
5 teal diamond
6 purple diamond
7 teal diamond
8 green diamond
9 teal diamond
10 purple diamond