The 1% Club players stumped by ‘easy' question that knocks out 23 people – would you have got it?

The Sun

24-05-2025

ON TONIGHT'S edition of The 1% Club, 23 players were eliminated by an 'easy' question.
Lee Mack took to the airwaves on ITV to present another instalment of the popular gameshow.
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The 1% Club doesn't test players on their general knowledge, instead contestants have to solve riddles.
100 players have to use common sense as they are tasked with solving questions based on logic and reasoning skills.
They are only given a 30 second time limit as they are whittled down as the questions get harder and harder.
In the end, they have the chance to enter the prestigious club by answering a question that only one percent of the public would get right.
The 56-year-old presenter moved onto the 70% question as he asked the remaining players to solve a question.
"John writes with his right hand and the last word he'd right if he was writing this sentence would be be.
"If Keith writes with his left hand, what would be the last word he would write in the sentence above?"
Of course the answer was the word 'be', as a different writing hand would not change the last word, something which many viewers playing along got correct.
However, a whopping 23 players in the studio answered the riddle incorrectly and they were eliminated from the game.
Viewers took to social media in droves as they couldn't believe so many players left the game after such an 'easy' question.
The 1% Club knocks out 17 players on difficult numbers question
Writing on X - formerly known as Twitter - one user posted a GIF of Reese Witherspoon as her Legally Blonde alter-ego, Elle Woods.
The image of the iconic film character sarcastically mouthed the question, "What, like it's hard?"
"How did 23 get this wrong?," asked a second user with a monkey covering his eyes emoji.
While a third exclaimed: "TWENTY THREE out on THAT?!?!"
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.
Players were tasked with working out how many eyes they could see in an image, which was made up of letters, symbols and emojis. Find the image and the 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.
And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER If you really don't know you can find the answer here.
As someone else stated: "How t* have 23 gone out?? Being left handed doesnt mean you write words in the wrong order."
And a fifth fan added: "Too many people thinking too hard on that one #The1PercentClub."
Because of the huge elimination, the jackpot prize rose significantly to huge levels.
The £5,000 pot rose to a whopping £28,000 as nearly a quarter of the total amount of players were eliminated.
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The 1% Club continues on ITV1 and is available to watch back on ITVX.