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Puzzle ZFFC 


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What comes next in this sequence:

elgnairt · erauqs · nogatnep · nogaxeh · nogatpeh · ?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Answer
nogatco.

Reasoning
These are geometric shapes, the number of sides increases, and the words are reversed.
3 elgnairt = triangle
4 erauqs   = square
5 nogatnep = pentagon
6 nogaxeh  = hexagon
7 nogatpeh = heptagon
8 nogatco  = octagon