“SHE TURNED DOWN A GUARANTEED £10,000… THEN ONE BRUTAL QUESTION DECIDED THE FATE OF £93,000.” After defeating 99 other contestants on The 1% Club, one player stood on the edge of a life-changing jackpot and made the kind of decision that separates caution from courage: risk everything for £93,000. As the final puzzle appeared and the clock began ticking, confidence quickly gave way to uncertainty as a question many viewers would later describe as one of the most baffling in the show’s history pushed her to the limit. When the answer was finally revealed, social media erupted with debate, confusion, and disbelief, proving that the most painful losses aren’t the ones where you never had a chance — they’re the ones where victory felt close enough to touch. Sometimes one question doesn’t just test intelligence; it tests how much you’re willing to risk for a dream.

A PLAYER on The 1% Club has lost out on a huge £93K prize due to a tricky book question – but could you get it right?

The popular ITV game show tests the audience’s common sense and logic, rather than general knowledge.

On tonight’s episode, Lee Mack was back with more quiz questions aimed to stump the 100 players in the game.

By the final question, only one contestant remained and they won £10K for getting through – but decided to risk it all to face a question only a reported 1% of the UK would be able to answer.

However, if they got it right they would win the prize pot of a whopping £93k.

Host Lee asked: “In the image below, three volumes of a cookery book series are lined up in order, next to each other on a shelf.

“What is the distance in centimetres between the first page of volume one and the last page of volume three?

With time running against her, the remaining player, had to tell Lee out loud what her answer was.

The lovely Amena replied: “14.9cm”

Unfortunately, she didn’t get it right and Lee bid her goodbye after revealing the answer was 7.

He explained: “When stored upright, the first page of the book is on the right and the last page is on the left.

“So you only need to measure the pages of one book and four covers.”

Viewers rushed to social media and one wrote: “Feel sorry for Amena but she did great to get to 1% question”

A second said: “That 1% Q makes no sense whatsoever.”

While a third said: “That was a bl**dy dodgy last question.”

A fourth added: “That 1% question was a trick question bang out of order and in bad taste.

Recently, a contestant made history on the show as the first contestant ever to walk away with the full £100,000 prize pot.

As Lee revealed she had taken home the win, Maccisha clapped her hand over her mouth in shock as the studio turned gold in celebration.

The question was: “What is the lowest number that replaces the question mark in this sequence?”

The three contestants then were shown:

• 1+2 = one
• 2+2 = four
• 3+2 = three
• 3+3 = eleven
• 4+3 = ??

School teacher Maccisha guessed correctly that the answer was fifteen.

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The 1% Club is available to watch on ITV and ITVX.