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The 1% Club wipes out 14 players with tricky age riddle – would you have got it right?
Just overF half of the public would be expected to correctly answer this question
THE 1% Club wiped out 14 people with a challenging age riddle - but would you have got it right?
Hosted by Lee Mack, the popular game show tests logic and common sense rather than general knowledge.
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Contestants hope to reach the final round and be in with a chance of winning up to £100,000.
An episode of the ITV show saw a whopping 14 people eliminated after not knowing the answer to a tricky riddle.
The question read: "Richard is older than Clare. Jojo is older than Hennie. Hennie is older than Richard. Who is the oldest?"
Naturally, the available options were A) Richard, B) Clare, C) Jojo or D) Hennie.
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This question was 60%, meaning just over half of the public would be expected to get it right.
The correct answer, once you've read through the sentence, turned out to be Jojo.
It's not the first time viewers have seen large numbers of players stumped on a question.
In a different instalment, an "easy" question knocked out a total of 25 people.
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The question posed: "Which of the following words contain the most vowels?"
The answers to choose from were: vowel, consonant and letter.
The 1% Club leaves players stumped with tricky letters question - but could you work it out in 30 seconds?
As this was the 90% question - the first to be asked - it seemed deceptively simple only to catch many out.
The correct answer was revealed to be consonant.
Elsewhere, another episode saw three people eliminated on a simple letters question.
The 80% puzzle showed a five letter word with the first three letters missing.
Lee then asked: "What vegetable can you insert here to make a fruit?"
The image displayed the following spaces and letters: ___CH
Lee joked: "Please do not try to insert a vegetable at home, our contestants are trained professionals."
When the time was up, it was revealed that three had been eliminated.
He then explained the answer was the vegetable pea - which when added to the CH would make the word peach
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Meanwhile, popular host Lee previously revealed his real name - much to fans' shock.
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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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.
- 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.
- 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?
- And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER
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