A TRICKY word question on The 1% Club saw two players miss out on a huge jackpot – but could you get it right?
Lee Mack hosts the ITV quiz, renowned for its challenging brainteasers.
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Contestants who reach the final round – the 1% question – have a chance to win up to £100,000.
One episode saw three people reach the very end – Victoria, Phil and Anne.
Victoria opted to take her share of £10,000, while the other two decided to play for the £99,000 jackpot.
The question was: “All the words in this list have something specific in common. What is it?”
Meanwhile, the four words were: Into, Therefore, Evaluate and Benign.
Anne shared she’d answered that all four words “had names in them”.
As for Phil, he’d gone with that all four contained two words – but then ruled this out due to benign.
Unfortunately for the pair, both of them turned out to be incorrect and lost out on the prize.
Lee revealed: “They all end with the sound of a number – two, four, eight and nine.”
It’s not the first time contestants have been left flummoxed on The 1% Club.
On another occasion, a whopping 25 people were knocked out on a counting question.
An image popped up on to the big screen that showed a brick wall with golden bricks, but some of the bricks in the middle were missing.
The question asked: “How many bricks are missing from this wall?”
As the 30 seconds ticked down, Lee quipped: “Where are Pink Floyd when you need them.”
The puzzle appeared to be just a simple matter of counting.
The 1% Club’s Most Difficult Questions
The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show’s most difficult teasers.
- Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides. Find the image and answer here.
- Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left. Find the image and answer here.
- Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here.
- Peter had recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he couldn’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here.
- A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49. Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to? Find the image and the answer here.
However, after the time was up it was revealed that a whopping 25 people had got it wrong, wiping themselves out of the competition and leaving 70 competitors remaining.
But were you able to work out the correct answer?
It was later revealed to be 12.
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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