Answer: What Comes Next? #82

The answer is B: purple heart.

The rule

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

When you run it, Python prints:

1 yellow heart
2 purple heart
3 purple heart
4 yellow heart
5 purple heart
6 purple heart
7 yellow heart
8 purple heart