“30 CONTESTANTS TOOK THE SAME WRONG PATH… AND NEVER SAW THE TRAP UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.” What appeared to be a routine traffic question on The 1% Club suddenly became one of the night’s biggest shock eliminations as 30 contestants confidently chose the same incorrect answer, convinced they had solved it within seconds. As the reveal unfolded, viewers quickly realized the puzzle had very little to do with road knowledge and everything to do with resisting an assumption that almost everyone made instinctively. The dramatic fallout has sparked fresh debate among fans, with many admitting they would have fallen for the exact same trap and arguing that the most dangerous questions on The 1% Club are always the ones that seem easiest at first glance.

THE 1% Club left a whopping 30 players stumped with a tricky traffic question – but could you get it right?

The challenging 45% question proved too difficult for some contestants.

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Lee Mack hosts the ITV game show that doesn’t rely on general knowledge, but instead tests players’ logic and common sense.

Round by round, the puzzles get increasingly difficult as more people are eliminated.

This particular question asked: “There’s something wrong with one of these pictures of London traffic. Which one?”

Players were shown three side-by-side photos with red double decker buses, pedestrians and taxis.

While the contestants tried to come up with the correct answer, Lee quipped: “I think it’s all of them… the traffic’s moving.”

After the 30 seconds were up, Lee revealed 11 people had answered incorrectly and were out of the game.

The correct answer was A), as it showed vehicles driving on the wrong side of the road.

Lee then added: “Interestingly on that one, there were 19 passes used.”

This meant a total of 30 people had been left flummoxed.

It’s not the first time that the ITV show has stumped its contestants.

Viewers previously saw 23 people eliminated on an “easy” question.

For a 70% round, Lee had asked: “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?”

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.

Elsewhere, 13 players were left bamboozled on a tricky picture question.

This was the 80% question – meaning 80% of the public would be expected to answer correctly.

Contestants were shown three seemingly identical photos of people dressed as a gorilla, clown and horse respectively.

A) was right side up, B) was upside down and C) was tilted to the right.

Lee asked the players: “Which of these is not the same photo as the other two?”

As usual, contestants had just 30 seconds to suss out the challenging puzzle.

The correct answer turned out to be B), as “In A and C, the gorilla is on the left and the horse on the right but they have swapped in B.”

The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.

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