A grid of roads.
Nine roundabouts.
A yellow star.
And an instruction that sounds simple until you actually try following it in your head.
This The 1% Club puzzle tells players:
“If you begin at the star and turn right at roundabout B, and then turn right at the next seven roundabouts you come to, how many different roundabouts will you visit?”
At first glance, it feels like a test of navigation.
You have to work out which way you’re facing, remember what “right” means after every turn and somehow keep track of every roundabout you’ve already passed.
With roads stretching in several directions, it is easy to imagine your route snaking across most of the diagram.
But that assumption is exactly where the puzzle can catch you.
Because although you make eight right turns, you don’t visit eight different roundabouts.
In fact, your journey becomes repetitive much sooner than you might expect.
Give yourself 30 seconds before scrolling to the solution.
The Biggest Trap Is Counting Turns Instead Of Locations
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The wording makes one detail particularly important:
The question doesn’t ask:
“How many roundabouts do you reach?”
It asks:
“How many DIFFERENT roundabouts will you visit?”
That single word changes everything.
If your route eventually returns to somewhere you’ve already been, visiting that roundabout again doesn’t increase the total.
So rather than simply counting eight turns, you need to follow the route and mark each new roundabout only once.
Everything Depends On Your First Right Turn
You begin at the yellow star, travelling towards roundabout B.
At B, you are told to turn right.
That sends you along the upper road towards the roundabout on the right.
When you reach that next roundabout, you turn right again.
Now you’re travelling downwards.
At the following roundabout, another right turn sends you back towards the left.
And then the next right takes you up again.
At this point, something important has happened.
You’ve effectively travelled around the four sides of a small square.
And you’re about to arrive somewhere very familiar.
Four Right Turns Bring You Back To The Beginning Of The Loop
Follow those turns carefully:
From B, turn right.
At the next roundabout, turn right again.
At the third, right again.
At the fourth, right once more.
That fourth turn sends you back towards B.
So although you continue making right turns, you’re no longer discovering new parts of the map.
You’ve entered a loop.
The next four turns simply send you around the same four roundabouts all over again.
This is the point where anyone counting each encounter rather than each unique location can easily get the wrong answer.
Eight Turns Sound Like A Long Journey — But They Aren’t
The puzzle deliberately makes “the next seven roundabouts” sound as though you’re going to travel all over the grid.
You don’t.
Once you begin turning right at every roundabout, your route traces the same small circuit:
top-left of the loop → top-right → bottom-right → bottom-left → back to the start of the loop.
Then it repeats.
So now all that’s left is to count how many different roundabouts appeared anywhere on that circuit.
The Answer: 4 Different Roundabouts
The answer is:
4
Starting at the star, you reach B and turn right.
You then travel around the four roundabouts surrounding the central block.
After four right turns, you return to the first roundabout in that circuit.
From there, the exact same pattern begins again.
So even though the instructions take you through eight right turns, you repeatedly visit the same locations.
Only:
4 different roundabouts
are visited.
That is the trick hiding inside the question.
There is no complicated route covering all nine roundabouts, and you don’t need to calculate anything.
You simply need to recognise what happens when you keep turning right around the same rectangular block.
Eight turns may sound like eight opportunities to reach somewhere new — but after the first circuit, you’re just going round in circles.