Answer: What Comes Next? #191

The answer is A: blue square.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 3 things: purple diamond, blue square, blue square. 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 = ["purple diamond", "blue square", "blue square"]
for position in range(8):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 purple diamond
2 blue square
3 blue square
4 purple diamond
5 blue square
6 blue square
7 purple diamond
8 blue square