17 Contestants Were Wiped Out By A Question That Looked Almost Impossible To Get Wrong—And The Jackpot Shot From £12,000 To £29,000. The 70% Question Appeared To Be Nothing More Than A Quick Test Of Concentration. Contestants Were Given Numbers From 1 To 61 And Just 30 Seconds To Identify The Single Number Missing From The Sequence. No Specialist Knowledge Was Needed. No Complicated Calculation Was Involved. Yet When The Clock Hit Zero, 17 Players Had Given The Wrong Answer. The Result Immediately Changed The Game, Adding £17,000 To The Jackpot In One Brutal Sweep. Even Lee Mack Looked Taken Aback As The Prize Pot Suddenly Jumped From £12,000 To £29,000. Then Viewers Saw The Answer….
The 1% Club: Difficult Numbers Question Leaves 17 Players Stumped A numbers question on ITV’s The 1% Club proved far harder than expected, with 17 contestants eliminated after failing to identify the missing number. Presented by Lee Mack, the weekend primetime game show puts contestants through a series of riddles and puzzles rather than testing … Read more