The 1% Club has become a TV phenomenon since it hit screens in 2022 — keeping us all gripped with mind-bending teasers that only the most lateral of thinkers can solve.
Given the show has contestants from all walks of life taking part, it was only a matter of time before the younger generation had the chance to step up and give it a go.
The 1% Club kids special, which aired late last month, saw Lee Mack presiding over 100 contestants aged between nine and 15, who were tackling those tricky teasers in a bid to win a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida.
But just because the questions might have been aimed at a younger audience doesn’t mean the viewers at home found them any less challenging.
Take this one, for example, which appeared at the 25% stage of the game, with 26 contestants remaining.
It was as follows: ‘On Hannah’s 6th birthday, she went to a theme park. She really wanted to ride this rollercoaster but she was only one metre tall. Every year, Hannah gets five centimetres taller. How old will she be when she becomes able to ride the rollercoaster?’
The accompanying imagery showed a sign saying: ‘To ride, you must be at least 140cm tall or 12 years old.’
‘This is just like being back at school isn’t it, only with a really cool supply teacher,’ Lee Mack joked, before revealing that five of the contestants had been eliminated by the question.
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We admit, we did a double take when we saw this one, given that the answer, that Hannah would have to be 12 years old (the minimum age allowed to board the ride), appeared to be sitting right in front of us.
But actually this one still involved some maths given that we were told Hannah grew five centimetres every year, meaning contestants had to work out if she would reach the required height before she turned 12.
She would be 14 years old by the time met the height requirement, but Lee Mack explained: ‘On her 12th birthday she’ll be able to ride the rollercoaster despite only being 130cm tall’.
One of the contestants, Matilda, later explained how she got the answer, saying: ‘I looked at the question while you were reading it and I didn’t work it out so I just put 12.’
A guess, in other words. But a pretty spot-on one. And while most of the young contestants got it, it still baffled some of the older folks at home.
‘I’m out…because I didn’t read the sign properly,’ confessed one viewer on X.
And that wasn’t the only question that kept the viewers guessing, with one person adding: ‘Fantastic series and I’ve voted for the NTAs but still didn’t get the 1% question right.’
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Ultimately, five of the contestants – Immie, Ellie, Finley, Alayna and Olly – made it as far as the 1% question, with Ellie and Finley going on to become proud members of the 1% club as they won those coveted Walt Disney trips.
They did it by answering the following question: ‘What number replaces the question mark in this pyramid?’ complete with an pyramid image featuring the numbers 9 on the top row, 8 and 10 on the second,9 and 7 – followed bythe missing number on the next – and 10,8, 60 and 20 on the bottom row.
The answer? 13 – as each number is the average of the two numbers underneath it.
While we’re still waiting for more new episodes, the show continues to rake in viewers on weekends with recent repeats keeping us all playing along.
One recent re-run saw players Christopher and Scott trying to win a share of £95,000 by defeating a puzzler involving triangles.
The question was: How many triangles are there in this picture?
This one is a lot trickier than it looks because while some of the triangles within the image are obvious, there are others which aren’t quite so noticeable at first glance.
While the correct answer was 18, Christopher guessed eight and Scott was just off the mark with an answer of 19.
All of which proves that it might be easy to play along at home, but sometimes the show’s questions can defy even the most logical brain.
Especially when you’ve got 30 seconds to figure out the answer.