Answer: What Comes Next? #71

The answer is D: green diamond.

The rule

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

When you run it, Python prints:

1 yellow diamond
2 green diamond
3 green diamond
4 yellow diamond
5 green diamond
6 green diamond
7 yellow diamond
8 green diamond