25 players OUT in the opening round… and the studio GASPED. Just one 90% question turned The 1% Club into instant carnage as a quarter of all 100 contestants were eliminated before the game had barely begun. Lee Mack had given them just 30 seconds to solve what looked like an embarrassingly easy word puzzle—but the obvious answer became a brutal trap under pressure. When Lee revealed the solution, even the eliminated players couldn’t believe what they’d missed, with one admitting she had completely overthought it. 25 gone. 75 left. All because of one “easy” question.
THE 1% Club players were left gobsmacked after a question branded “easy” managed to wipe a quarter of them out. A 90% question caught the contestants off guard…