16 contestants wiped out… and a deceptively simple dice puzzle left the studio scratching their heads. What looked like a basic counting question quickly turned into one of The 1% Club’s biggest traps, as 16 players were eliminated on the 30% round after failing to spot every possible way to make the total of 10. With just 30 seconds on the clock, even confident contestants found themselves running out of ideas. When Lee Mack revealed the surprisingly short list of correct combinations, many realized they’d overlooked the most obvious solution hiding in plain sight. One tiny detail separated those who stayed in the game from those heading home.

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The 1% Club wipes out 16 players with very tricky dice question – but would you get the right answer?

Take a look at the question in the video and see if you could get the right answer

THE 1% Club left a staggering number of players stumped on the show as they failed to answer a very tricky question.

The ITV quiz show, fronted by Lee Mack, is known for regularly catching out TV hopefuls with their tough questions.

Dice puzzle: How many ways can you combine the visible dice faces to get a sum of ten?
This tricky question left many players stumped and wiped out 16 of themCredit: ITV
Illustration of dice and a question asking how many ways the visible faces can be added to equal ten.
Would you have got the correct answer?Credit: ITV

For the players on the latest episode of the programme it was no different, with a colossal 16 players being wiped out on the programme’s 30% question.

Lee Mack asked the difficult question all about faces of a dice to the players in the hopes they could progress to the next round.

The question read: “Using only the faces of the dice you can see and each of them just once, how many different ways can you add them together to make a total of ten?”

An image then flashed up on the screen with faces of a dice ranging from one to five.

Only the number six was missing.

Players were then given 30 seconds to see if they could figure out all the possible combinations.

Before Lee revealed the answers, it was confirmed that 16 players had been wiped out after getting the question incorrect.

Going on to share details of the answer, Lee told the 100 and the viewers at home that the right answer was the number three.

Lee explained that in order to get the number 10, there were only three answers from the options available.

Using the 5, 4 and 1 allowed for an answer of 10 as did using the 5, 3 and 2.

The final option saw the number 5 ditched with 4, 3, 2 and 1 all being added together to make 10.

In the episode, only one player managed to scoop the jackpot after working their way to the 1% question.

Cameron banked £96,000 after correctly getting the answer about a four digit pin number.

His two fellow finalists both crumbled under the pressure and offered up incorrect answers.

Dice puzzle: find combinations adding up to 10.
The answer was revealed to be threeCredit: ITV
A man in a suit on a game show set.
Lee explained how to arrive at the correct answerCredit: ITV