Select the figure that will come next in the following figure series.

Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) →


The lines divide each square into eight equal triangles, and each symbol moves round them by its own rule: the circle two triangles clockwise at every step, the cross two triangles anticlockwise, and the triangle one and three triangles clockwise in turn. The next step brings all three back to the places they have in the first figure.