Viewers of The 1% Club were shocked when an ‘easy’ question caught players out.

The ITV game show features a studio audience who all face ‘logic and common sense’-style questions in a bid to win up to £100,000.

All questions have been put to members of the public beforehand, and the percentage of those who answered correctly goes down at each stage.

To stay in the game, players in the studio must either answer correctly or use their single £1000 pass lifeline.

During a recent episode,  participants were presented with three different shapes and asked which square has the largest area.

Five players missed the point of the question as they tried to do the maths and work out the biggest area.

Viewers of The 1% Club were shocked when an 'easy' question caught players out during a recent episode
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Viewers of The 1% Club were shocked when an ‘easy’ question caught players out during a recent episode

The ITV game show, hosted by Lee Mack (pictured) features a studio audience who all face 'logic and common sense'-style questions in a bid to win up to £100,000
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The ITV game show, hosted by Lee Mack (pictured) features a studio audience who all face ‘logic and common sense’-style questions in a bid to win up to £100,000

They had not realised that in fact there could only be one possible answer because there was only one square on display.

The other two shapes on display were rectangles, meaning that the maths in the question was irrelevant.

When host Lee Mack asked one contestant what had happened, he said: ‘I just completely idiotically looked at the area!’

One contestant who got it right explained that they had instinctively worked the area out before reading the question properly.

Just 25% of the British public had correctly guessed the answer to the question before it was put to the players on TV.

But viewers immediately took to social media to voice their dismay and disbelief that some had got the question wrong.

One user wrote on X: ‘Only 25 percent of the British public got this question CORRECT?’ and added a sad face emoji.

Another said: ‘I’m [not going to lie] at first instinct I got it wrong too, then I saw the question again’

A third wrote: ‘Went for B at first then read the question again’

The 1% Club has become a hit for ITV since it was launched in 2022, and regularly pulls in more than four million viewers.

Lee previously admitted that while he ‘can’t take any credit’ for the format of the show, he thought it would work from the start.

They had not realised that in fact there could only be one possible answer because there was only one square on display

They had not realised that in fact there could only be one possible answer because there was only one square on display

The 1% Club has become a hit for ITV since it was launched in 2022, and regularly pulls in more than four million viewers
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The 1% Club has become a hit for ITV since it was launched in 2022, and regularly pulls in more than four million viewers

The 1% Club viewers were left perplexed and blasted presenter Lee Mack over a 'tricky question'
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The 1% Club viewers were left perplexed and blasted presenter Lee Mack over a ‘tricky question’


Speaking on the RHLSTP podcast, he said: ‘I can’t take any credit for it because it’s not my format.

‘On the pilot episode I said, ‘There is no way these 100 contestants are going to laugh at my jokes, they will be too busy trying to win the £100,000.

‘I didn’t get any laughs, but I did think, ‘This is a good format as my jokes are so brilliant.’

‘They have cast people who are bright and fun and, even though you think about serious quizzers doing it, no same person will get it right every time.’