A PLAYER on The 1% Club failed to make show history after getting the £100k question wrong – but could you have done it?
Saturday night’s show saw the jackpot reach £100,000, which host Lee Mack revealed was very rare.
After the 5% question, only one player – a man called Steve – was left standing, and Lee told him he would become the “first person ever to win the full £100k” if he took the gamble and got it right.
Steve admitted the £10,000 he had secured for making it to the final question as a lot of money, but he was willing to gamble to try and land the jackpot.
His decision took Lee by surprise, but he then revealed the 1% question which was: “What two letters replace the question marks?”
Underneath the rest of the puzzling question read: “TE times T equals MESSAGE. TO times IN equals POISON. E times ?? equals LEAVE.”
After his 30 seconds were up, Steve revealed he had locked in his answer as “NE.”
There was a dramatic pause, then Lee revealed he had got it wrong, with the correct answer being “IT” and the explanation: “If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you form words with the same meaning as the words on the right.”
Viewers of The 1% Club were disappointed for Steve, with one writing on X: “Wow… I am gutted for Steve today. We could’ve had our first £100,000 winner… ah well.”
Another added: “I went out on 70% but got the 1% right. Bad luck, Steve, fair play for having a go.”
A third commented: “Well Steve did super well to get to the 1% question. Whereas I got as far as 30% playing from home.”
Last week, two players made it to the final question and had the chance to win £94,000.
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For one player, it was the right decision as she ended up getting the 1% question wrong.
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The 1% Club airs on Saturdays on ITV and is available on ITVX.