PLAYERS on The 1% Club struggled through a ‘suspiciously easy’ £80k question.

ITV viewers were absolutely shocked by the number of players that were eliminated from the game show in the 30% round.

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Lee Mack took to the airwaves on Saturday night to host the latest edition of The 1% Club.

On the smash-hit show, players are not tested on their general knowledge like other shows such as The Chase and Tipping Point.

Instead they are whittled down as they are tasked with solving riddles based on logic, reasoning skills and common sense.

100 players try to make it to the end of the show to answer the last question and join the prestigious one per cent club.

This is a question that only one per cent of the public would answer correctly.

However, many players fell at the 30% hurdle as the host was looking for the correct answer of a numerical question.

The players were given a cartoon picture of a typical four-function calculator.

Mack asked: “What’s the largest four-digit number you can type using just the number keys on the bottom two rows of this calculator without using the same number key twice?”

As per the show rules, the players who were still in the game had just 30 seconds to work out the answer.

The number ‘3210’ was the correct answer, something that 12 players got wrong.

Despite the high number of eliminations, many viewers at home who were playing along actually answered the common sense riddle correctly.

Droves of fans who tuned in took to social media as they were slammed the question at being too ‘easy’.

Writing on X – formerly known as Twitter – one fan wrote: How did 12 go out???? It’s 3210

While a second exclaimed: “Wt*….12 out???”

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.

A third asked: “3210 …Is it easier this week?”

Writing the answer someone else enquired: “3210. How is this a 30% question?”

And a fifth added: “The calculator question seems suspiciously easy.”

After the huge round of eliminations, Mack then announced that the prize pot was raised to a whopping £80,000.

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You can watch The 1% Club on ITV1 and stream it back on ITVX.