The 1% Club contestants stumped by baffling Hokey Cokey question — could you have found the answer?

A seemingly simple Hokey Cokey question left The 1% Club contestants scrambling for an answer — and the trick was hidden in one easily overlooked detail.

Hosted by Lee Mack, the ITV quiz show challenged players with a family-of-five scenario involving a grandmother who repeatedly gets the dance moves wrong.

The question sounded straightforward. But under the pressure of a ticking 30-second clock, it proved surprisingly difficult.

The Hokey Cokey puzzle that caught contestants out

Lee asked players to imagine a family of five doing the Hokey Cokey.

Grandma, however, always gets the movements mixed up. Whenever everyone else puts a leg in, she puts an arm in instead. And when everyone else puts an arm in, she puts a leg in.

The question was: when the song reaches “you put your left leg in”, how many legs in total are not “in”?

The answer is six.

Four members of the family are following the instructions correctly, meaning each has one leg in and the other leg out. That leaves four legs outside.

Grandma is doing the opposite. Instead of putting her leg in, she puts an arm in, leaving both of her legs out.

That makes four plus two — six legs not “in”.

The question proved difficult enough to wipe out three contestants, while viewers at home admitted they had also been caught off guard.

The show’s official X account shared the puzzle with the question: “Hokey Cokey gone wrong! How many legs are left out?”

One viewer admitted: “I forgot Granny was part of the five people.”

Another said they had used their pass because they could not work it out quickly enough.

A third explained that they had answered five when they actually meant six.

17 contestants eliminated at the 80% question

The Hokey Cokey puzzle was not the only early stumbling block in the episode.

Saturday night’s show began with 100 contestants hoping to make it all the way to the 1% question and compete for a share of the jackpot.

However, 17 players were eliminated at the 80% question, leaving a much smaller group to continue.

Eventually, just one contestant — Steve — made it through to the final 1% question.

Steve risks £10,000 for the £100,000 jackpot

Having secured £10,000 by reaching the final question, Steve was given the choice of playing it safe or gambling the money for a chance to win the full £100,000.

He chose to take the risk.

His final challenge asked: “What two letters replace the question marks?”

The puzzle read:

TE times T = MESSAGE
TO times IN = POISON
E times ?? = LEAVE

Steve had 30 seconds to find the missing letters. When time ran out, he locked in “NE”.

But it was not the correct answer.

Lee revealed that the answer was “IT”. Replacing the word “times” with X turns the equations into TEXT = MESSAGE, TOXIN = POISON and EXIT = LEAVE.

Steve therefore missed out on the £100,000 jackpot after taking the gamble.

The 1% Club airs on Saturdays on ITV and is available to stream on ITVX.