Sequence

What comes next?

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Level 1

How to Play Sequence

Sequence is a pattern recognition game that challenges your logical thinking and IQ. Analyze the sequence of numbers, shapes, or symbols and figure out what comes next!

Study the pattern shown (numbers, shapes, colors, or symbols)
Identify the rule or pattern connecting the elements
Select the correct answer from the multiple choices
Each correct answer advances you to a harder level
You have 3 lives - lose one for each wrong answer

Pattern Recognition Tips

Look for common patterns: arithmetic sequences (add/subtract constant), geometric sequences (multiply/divide), or alternating patterns. Some sequences combine multiple rules - the numbers might increase while colors alternate. Top players reach Level 20+ by quickly identifying pattern types!

Did you know? Pattern recognition is a core component of IQ tests like Raven's Progressive Matrices. Regular practice can improve your fluid intelligence - the ability to solve new problems without prior knowledge!

How to play

Each round shows a row of colored shapes that follows a hidden rule, ending in a question mark. Work out the rule and tap which of the four choices comes next. A correct pick moves you up a level, a wrong one costs a life and reveals the answer. Lose all three lives and the run is over.

Tips

Read shape and color as two separate tracks. Some patterns keep the shape fixed and cycle colors, others do the opposite.

Early levels are simple back-and-forth alternation. From level 4, watch for a two-then-one rhythm like A A B.

Wrong choices usually share either the shape or the color of the real answer, so confirm both before you tap.

On a keyboard, keys 1 through 4 pick choices, which saves time on longer patterns.

Pattern recognition as a test

Predicting the next item in a sequence is one of the oldest formats in reasoning tests, and it appears in one form or another in most measures of fluid intelligence. The reason it works as a test is that there is no knowledge to look up. Every sequence here is built from a hidden rule about shape, colour, or both, and the only way to answer is to infer the rule from the examples in front of you.

The tip about reading shape and colour as two separate tracks is the key. Many sequences change one property while holding the other steady, and some alternate the two. Treating them as independent cuts a confusing pattern into two simple ones.

Finding the rule

Split the sequence into two. Write down, mentally, just the shapes, then just the colours. One of them is usually obvious.

Look for a cycle length. A pattern that repeats every two, three or four items is the most common kind.

Check the answer against every item, not just the last one. A rule that fits the last two is often not the rule.

When the shapes cycle and the colours cycle at different lengths, the answer is where both cycles land next.

A wrong pick reveals the answer. Look at what the rule actually was; the same kind of rule tends to recur.

Common questions

What kinds of rules are used?

Rules about shape, about colour, or about both at once. Many sequences change one while holding the other steady, so reading them as two separate tracks helps.

What happens on a wrong answer?

It costs one of your three lives and the correct answer is shown, so you can see what the rule was.

How many choices are there?

Four. Exactly one continues the sequence.