The TV quiz phenomenon, The 1% Club, has been thrilling audiences since its debut in 2022, with only the most lateral thinkers able to crack the tricky teasers contestants face.
The show, fronted by Lee Mack, sees 100 players answering logic-based puzzles that become increasingly harder as the game progresses, in a bid to win their share of the prize money.
The only way to go home with the cash is to avoid being eliminated as the rounds progress and correctly answer the final question of the show, the one which only 1% of the public were able to get right.
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A recently re-run episode of the show, which originally aired in April 2025, saw 12 contestants making it through to the final stage, a new record for the show.
The final question was: If you remove all the underlined letters from the sentence below, what word can be spelt if you rearrange all of the remaining letters? ONE SELLING FRESH SALMON.
It certainly looks like a tricky one at first glance, and as Lee Mack collected answers after the 30 seconds was up, one contestant after another confessed they hadn't got it.
However, the answer was 'FISHMONGER', with the remaining letters after removing those underlined being 'ONESIGFRHM', requiring a clever anagram to arrive at the solution.
While there might have been a record number of contestants in the final, ultimately only three of them answered correctly, leaving 9 others with nothing.
The winners, David Cain, Ellis Knox, and Govind Kharbanda, all took home £31,000 each as their share of the prize money.
However, the question left viewers at home stumped, with some branding it 'impossible' and others admitting they went to the comments for the answer.
The show has also featured a special edition where children aged between nine and 15 stepped into the studio for the chance to win a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida.
However, many of them were left stumped by the 25% question, which was: '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 answer, that Hannah would have to be 12 years old to ride, appeared to be sitting right in front of them, but actually involved some maths given that Hannah grew five centimetres every year.
She would be 14 years old by the time she 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).
