“37 CONTESTANTS FELL INTO THE SAME TRAP… AND MOST OF THEM NEVER SAW IT COMING.” What looked like a straightforward language challenge on The 1% Club quickly turned into one of the most controversial moments of the season when dozens of players confidently chose the wrong answer for the exact same reason. As viewers replayed the puzzle again and again, many realized the real trick had nothing to do with languages at all—it was hidden in plain sight from the very beginning. Now fans are fiercely divided, with some praising the question as a stroke of genius and others insisting it crossed the line from clever to unfair, proving that sometimes the biggest obstacle in the game is the way our own brains work against us.

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THE 1% Club has left a massive 37 players baffled with a language question –  but could you spot the logical answer?

An episode of The 1% Club saw 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot.

Quiz question: Which of these is NOT a correct translation of "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight"? Options in German, Romanian, and Greek are provided.
The 1% Club language question leaves a massive 37 players baffled – but could you spot the logical answer?Credit: ITV

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The audience gasped when Lee revealed how many failed to get the answer correctCredit: ITV

 

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Lee joked around with an eliminated player and his lucky glove puppet charmCredit: ITV

The 1% Club is a unique format that doesn’t test players on their general knowledge like other shows.

Instead, it tests them on their logic, reasoning skills and common sense.

100 players are whittled down, question by question, as they are tasked with solving different riddles and puzzles.

The aim is to get to the last round where only one percent of the public could answer the final question correctly.

However, a massive 37 players were baffled by a logical language puzzle nearly half way through an episode.

A whopping 20 were taken out of the game and 17 players used their passes in a question that 45 percent of the public would get right.

Host Lee Mack asked the question: “Which of these are NOT the correct translation of the following: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight.

He then showed them a multiple choice option of A, B and C which was written in a different language from English.

“Foreign language questions – you don’t get this on Saturday Night Take Away” he joked during the players 30 seconds to answer..

However, there was an audible shock from contestants when he revealed: “20 players are knocked out and 17 used their passes.”

He then revealed the answer to be C and explained: “You don’t need to be able to speak any of the languages.

“But you do need to spot that there are only seven numbers not eight.”

Lee then turned to the audience and asked Scott who had been eliminated – if he wanted to chuck his lucky mascot away.

Scott laughed and threw it onto the stage and told Lee that he could use it for the rest of the show if he wanted.

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Lee, of course, put the glove puppet on and joked around for a while.

Before throwing it back To Scott and asking him what went wrong.

Lee replied: “I went for B then counted them all and saw it was C “

“Never mind ” pipped Lee before getting on with the rest of the show.

Quiz: Which is NOT the correct translation of "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight"? Options in German, Romanian, and Greek are shown.
It seems you didn’t need to know languages at all to know the answerCredit: ITV

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