Try this one. I’m rendering the prompt in fixed text so it’s more obvious to human readers. Other LLMs like Google Gemini or even GPT 4o can’t get this. The o1 model nails it, and explains the reasoning.
The following is a sequence of three patterns. Predict what comes next
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