Some were surprised at how easy this question was from Lee Mack’s The 1% Club.
Lee Mack, the host of ITV The 1% Club(Image: ITV)
TV viewers have confessed they’re “face palming” after realising how obvious an answer to a question from The 1% Club was.
The ITV gameshow, fronted by comedian and actor Lee Mack, has proven to be a huge hit with fans, though it’s often left them baffled.
The format sees 100 contestants take part in rounds of questions that have already been answered by members of the general public, with the rounds getting successively harder, until the final question, which only 1% of the population are presumed to know.
As Lee goes through the 15 questions, the contestants – who are each given a £1,000 stake at the start – are slowly whittled down.
The contestants must lock in their answers within 30 seconds, and can continue through to the next round if they get it right, or pass that round after the 50% question.
Those who make it to the very final round have the opportunity to win up to £100,000, or split shares of the prize pot.
Meanwhile, those of us watching at home and playing along on the app can simply bask in the glory.
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Often, viewers have admitted to being “bamboozled” by tricky questions, but a recent one has left fans frustrated after they realised how obvious it was.
Showing a grid with a series of apparently-random letters, and four question marks, it asked: “What animal is missing?”
At first, the grid did seem like all the letters had been placed there at random, but after reading the rows going down and then left to right, it was just a nursery rhyme.
The first row read: O N E T W O, the second: T H R E E F, the third: O U R F I V, the fourth: E O N C E I, the fifth: C A U G H T, the sixth: A ? ? ? ? A, and the final one, with the last two spots blank: L I V E.
The Facebook account that shared the question said it was a 5% question, but admitted they weren’t attempting it.
They then confessed: “Facepalmed when I saw the answer as well.”
Viewers have been pondering the ‘tricky’ question(Image: ITV)
And viewers were just as annoyed, realising if they had read (and sung) the words going down the grid, they would have known it was “fish”.
“Oh god, when you see it!!!! My brain is squeezing,” one said.
Another wrote: “Had to sing the rhyme for old times sake.”
“Fish. But took me longer than 30 seconds,” someone else said.
A fourth fumed that a fish didn’t count as an animal, as the question had stated, while someone else commented: “OMG! That took WAYYYY longer than needed…”
One fan was seething over the question, writing: “This is one of the worst questions I’ve ever seen. This isn’t even anything witty, you just have to know a rhyme lol. I noticed the numbers but how tf could I know the word unless I know the rhyme. Soooo dumb.”
Agreeing, another wrote: “This one SUCKS because if you don’t know the nursery rhyme, you could guess any four letter animal. Bird, frog… anything. FFS.”
The 1% Club is available to watch on ITVX