THREE contestants were left stumped by a tricky letter riddle that whittled down the competition in its final stages.
Host Lee Mack tasked the 10 remaining players with a tough challenge for the 15% question.
Lee Mack read out a challenging letter riddle for the 15% question[/caption]
Three players failed to answer this one correctly[/caption]
It read: “Which two words, that contain the same five letters as each other but in a different order, mean the same as the two words below? Fairly silent.”
The clock began to tick and the remaining players did their best to find the answer from within the recesses of their minds.
The correct answer was “quite quiet”.
Contestant Jackie successfully got the answer right but told Lee that she was getting “less confident with every question”.
Sadly for her, she fell close to the final hurdle with the 5% question proving too much.
For that question, the contestants were presented with a jumbled up clock face with the minute hand pointing at six, which was in the 12 position, and the small hand close to 10, which was was where nine is usually found.
They were tasked with working out the time on the clock if the hands moved 30 minutes clockwise. The answer was 10 o’clock.
Jackie was the sole casualty of the question and her exit paved the way for five contestants to have the opportunity to win a potential £97,000.
All five men standing decided to gamble their £10k prize for a chance of winning more money and to become a member of the 1% Club.
The question was: “What new word links the capitalised words below? My SON TED ate raw FOOD and got SICK, then went to BED with me by his SIDE.”
The answer was ‘sea’ which could be placed before each word to make a series of new words. No one got the answer right.
Jackie got the 15% question right but fell at the 5% hurdle[/caption]
The 1% Club’s Most Difficult Questions
The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show’s most difficult teasers.
- Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides. Find the image and answer here.
- Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left. Find the image and answer here.
- Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here.
- Peter had recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he couldn’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here.
- Players were tasked with working out how many eyes they could see in an image, which was made up of letters, symbols and emojis. Find the image and the answer here.
- A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49. Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to? Find the image and the answer here.
- And finally, an easy one – What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER If you really don’t know you can find the answer here.
