You’ve known the alphabet since you were a child, so this should be an easy one. There’s nothing complicated hiding in the question. No tricky calculation, no specialist knowledge — just a few letters, a mirror and 30 seconds to work out what happens. It was even expected to be a question that half of the public could answer correctly. Yet when the countdown ended, 14 contestants had either got it wrong or used their pass, adding another £14,000 to the prize pot and taking it to £49,000. That’s the strange thing about this puzzle: the answer feels almost embarrassingly obvious once it is pointed out. The difficult part is getting there while your brain is racing through the alphabet and the clock is steadily running down.
14 players wiped out by one deceptively simple question on The 1% Club A seemingly straightforward question about the alphabet proved surprisingly costly on The 1% Club, with 14 contestants eliminated in a single round. The challenge looked simple enough. Players were shown a statement about capital letters and mirrors, then given just 30 seconds … Read more