Lee Mack’s 1% Club’s final question has left viewers baffled with only two contestants actually getting it right – with viewers at home realising how blindingly obvious it was
Quiz show fans have been left baffled after an extra tricky hidden code question caught many viewers out – but is blindingly obvious when you know the answer.
The primetime ITV show hosted by Lee Mack pips 100 contestants against each other as they answer increasingly harder questions to prove they are in the nation’s top 1% quizzers – and walk away with a big lump of cash.
In theory, only 1 in 100 people can answer the final question but last week’s trivia was particularly tough with only half of the final four contestants able to get it correct and walk home with a staggering £46,500 each.
The 1% question was as follows: “Peter has recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he can’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Can you crack the code to find out what the underlined word is? WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72.”
The words in the build-up to the codeword seem somewhat obvious, with “When I grow up I want to be a” all being easily deciphered but the final codeword itself left many kicking themselves once the host revealed the answer. The key to the code, Peter replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter, leading Lee Mack to reveal the answer as ‘florist’.
The two contestants, Maisy and Jasmine were thrilled to be announced the winners after cracking the code. The show debuted in April 2022 and instantly had viewers hooked, like many other quiz shows, the questions are styled more like an IQ test than general knowledge meaning the answer is often behind logic and common sense rather than niche facts.
BBC Studios holds the international format and distribution rights which now has spin-offs around the world with sister programmes in Australia, America, Germany, France and Spain.
The show’s answers are often met with frustration. In a previous episode of the show fans were left angry after asking: “Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence below? PHEASANTORTOISEALION”.
The correct answer was six – pheasant, sealion, ant, seal, tortoise, and lion, but the inclusion of the insect on the list left many fooled and furious.
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