Answer: What Comes Next? #300

The answer is D: green star.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 4 things: green diamond, green star, green hexagon, green star. 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 = ["green diamond", "green star", "green hexagon", "green star"]
for position in range(10):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 green diamond
2 green star
3 green hexagon
4 green star
5 green diamond
6 green star
7 green hexagon
8 green star
9 green diamond
10 green star