Fans of The 1% Club have been left stumped during its last episode thanks to one tricky question.
Because they had absolutely no idea what they were looking at, they took to social media to figure it out among themselves.
It all began when comedian host Lee Mack posed the Q to the contestants, which left them with five options to choose from.
He said: “Which of these groups of six symbols are in the same order whether you read them from left to right or from right to left?”
Don’t even attempt it (ITV)
When the answer was announced on the screen, the question left people so heated that they insisted that the show was wrong, as the screen flashed a ‘C’ when they believed it was an ‘A’.
Not only were they baffled, but they couldn’t wrap their heads around how it could be any other answer.
Some even thought that it was all a trick question, and the explanations in the comments give plenty of food for thought.
One person wrote on X: “I said A and I still think A. I don’t understand how it’s not.”
Another begged: “Can someone please explain how it’s C?”
Someone else wrote: “This is a trick question, A or C could be correct depending on the definition of right to left used.”
One person explained their theory “It’s not about being mirrored; it’s about what symbol is what. So A would be (from L-R): left bracket, right bracket, left bracket etc, but R-L it would be; right bracket, left bracket etc. which is difference. Whereas C is left arrow-right arrow-right arrow etc from both ends!”
Honestly, not one word of that tweet means a thing to me, it’s practically gibberish.
It appears that at least some of the contestants managed to get it correct, as four lucky people ended up taking home a share of £97,000 when they completed the final question.
So maybe it’s a good thing that none of us have entered the show.
Even though this was a massively brain-melting question, the show is 100 percent known to confuse the living daylights out of viewers all the time.
Last time this happened, it was over an impossible question.
Well, it might not have been impossible for those on the show if they’d had more time, but for us at home, it was a nightmare.
The question is this: What number comes next in this sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
********
Lee Mack doesn’t go easy on The 1% Club. (ITV)
Did you get it? Of course not!
The final line ended up being 13112221, because the line above it has one three, one one, two twos, and then two ones.
Don’t ask me to show you the math on this.
Another question which stumped viewers was when Mack asked: “A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”
It was 5p, by the way.
Don’t even attempt to work it out.
