Answer: What Comes Next? #265

The answer is A: orange triangle.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 4 things: orange triangle, orange triangle, purple triangle, pink triangle. 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 = ["orange triangle", "orange triangle", "purple triangle", "pink triangle"]
for position in range(10):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 orange triangle
2 orange triangle
3 purple triangle
4 pink triangle
5 orange triangle
6 orange triangle
7 purple triangle
8 pink triangle
9 orange triangle
10 orange triangle