The 1% Club question that left 20 contestants stumped
A deceptively simple picture puzzle proved far tougher than expected on The 1% Club, with 20 contestants eliminated after failing to identify the correct footprints in the sand.
Host Lee Mack was visibly surprised by the result as the difficult 30% question dramatically reduced the number of players still in the running.
Could you spot all eight right footprints?
The question shown to the contestants was:
How many RIGHT FOOTPRINTS can you see in the sand?
Players were shown an image containing a collection of footprints and given 30 seconds to work out which belonged to the right foot and which belonged to the left.
It may have looked straightforward, but the contestants quickly came up with a range of different answers.
When the time ran out, Lee revealed that the correct answer was eight.
The eight right footprints were then highlighted in green on the image, making it clear which prints the contestants should have been looking for.
The result had a major impact on the game, with 20 players eliminated by the question.
Reacting to the number of contestants who had been caught out, Lee said: “Wow! We lost a lot of people there!”
Would you have managed to identify all eight?
Another brutal question wiped out every finalist
The footprint puzzle was not the only recent question to cause chaos on The 1% Club.
In the previous week, the show’s final question proved even more costly, eliminating all five remaining players and leaving £97,000 unclaimed.
Lee introduced the final challenge by asking: “What new word links the capitalised words below?”
He then read the sentence:
“My SON TED ate raw FOOD and got SICK, then went to BED with me by his SIDE.”
Once the 30 seconds were up, Lee went through the remaining contestants one by one. Each player had arrived at a different answer.
One contestant admitted that they had not written anything down, while another had chosen “well”. Someone else had gone with “new”.
None of the answers was correct.
Lee eventually revealed that the missing word linking the capitalised words was “sea”.
With every finalist eliminated, the question brought the game to an abrupt end and cost the five contestants the chance to take home the £97,000 prize.
