The 1% Club wipes out 14 players with tricky limerick question – but could you get the right answer in 30 seconds?
THE 1% Club left viewers gobsmacked after a savage limerick question wiped out 14 contestants in one brutal swoop.
The brain-bending ITV quiz show, hosted by Lee Mack, delivered a poetic puzzle that had players scratching their heads.
Instead of testing players on their general knowledge, 100 contestants try their luck at solving riddles within 30 seconds.
On The 1% Club, they are whittled down round by round as they are tasked with using their logic, reasoning skills, and common sense.
With every player that gets eliminated, £1,000 gets added to the prize pot as the players try to answer questions that certain percentages of the public would get right.
The players that remain at the end will fight to win a potentially huge jackpot prize and a chance at joining the prestigious one percent club.
But the 30% question saw a whopping 14 players get eliminated.
Lee asked: “Jamil is writing a limerick but needs a word that follows these rules to complete the last line…
“Two syllables, only two different vowels, starts with an even -numbered letter and contains at least three letters from the second half of the alphabet. Which of these words would work?”
The options were: Doggie, Blades, Hotel, Prizes and Rabbit.
The remaining players faces looked puzzled as they tried to figure out the answer within the 30 seconds.
Lee then revealed the right answer was Prizes – after a massive 14 people were knocked out.
The episode also saw an ‘easy’ common sense riddle knock out 23 people earlier on in the show.
When Lee moved onto the 70% question, he asked the remaining players to solve a question.
Lee said: “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?”
Of course 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.
However, a whopping 23 players in the studio answered the riddle incorrectly and they were eliminated from the game.
Viewers took to social media in droves as they couldn’t believe so many players left the game after such an ‘easy’ question
One wrote: “How t* have 23 gone out?? Being left handed doesn’t mean you write words in the wrong order.”
Another added: “Too many people thinking too hard on that one.”
A third penned: “TWENTY THREE out on THAT?!?!”
The 1% Club is available to watch on ITV1 and stream on ITVX.
