Viewers of The 1% Club were stunned Saturday by a question that seemed to have more than one answer.
The show tests the intelligence, common sense and logic of 100 members of the public with questions that increase in order of difficulty depending on what proportion of the wider audience can answer them: 90 percent, 80 percent, up to one percent.
This week, what at first seemed like a simple question from the 30 percent section got some fans of the show excited.
It read: ‘Amrit and his grandfather share the same birthday. Their birthday balloons arrive confused. Amrit’s grandfather is three times older than him. How old is Amrit?’
Four gold balloons were on display beneath the question in the shapes of the numbers six, eight, seven and two.
Viewers of The 1% Club were baffled by a question that seemed to have more than one answer on Saturday (host Lee Mack pictured)
What at first seemed like a simple question from the 30 percent section excited some fans of the show this week
The answer was expected to be that Amrit is 26 years old, which makes his grandfather 78.
However, one person commented on the show’s official Instagram page, claiming: ‘My other half is convinced his answer of 29 is also correct.’
They added: ‘There’s no string on those balloons, that’s why you could turn the 6 upside down. 3×29=87 What do you think? Was he still there, or was he out of the game?’
Viewers also took to Twitter to have their say, with one person writing: ‘It could have been two answers which is strange… flip the six to a 9 and it could have been 29 and 87.’
Someone else said: ‘It could also be 29, i.e. a third of 87? If I had put that in the studio I would expect an appeal!!! Previous questions used balloons to interchange the numbers 6 and 9!!!’
While someone else posted: ‘Hmm, they should have put strings on the bottom of the balloons if they wanted to stop people from turning the 6 upside down for 29 and 87.’
Meanwhile, viewers of The 1% Club also recently criticized the show for its “easy” final question during an episode in February.
The show tests the intelligence, common sense and logic of 100 members of the public with questions that increase in order of difficulty depending on what proportion of the wider audience can answer them: 90 percent, 80 percent, up to one percent.
The answer was expected to be that Amrit is 26 years old, making his grandfather 78 years old, but some viewers suggested an alternative answer
The 1% question on the most recent episode was apparently not as difficult as the show thought, as many viewers felt it was too simple.
The question was: ‘If you use only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘possession’.
While this is a question that apparently 99% of the audience can’t answer, many X users were right.
One user wrote: ‘I don’t normally get the last question but I saw it straight away. Comfortable.’
Another agreed, adding: “That was easier than the few previous ones.”
A third wrote: ‘I get it! Goddammit, I actually answered the 1% question!’
Another user jokingly wrote, “It’s going to be hard this show,” to which The 1% Cub Twitter account replied, “We’re tough cookies, what can we say.”
The show, which has aired three series to date, is hosted by comedian Lee Mack.
The question was: ‘If you use only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘Possession’
While this is a question that apparently 99% of the audience can’t answer, many X users have it right
It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be banned as long as it’s funny enough.
The Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke should be funny rather than shocking.
But he said that while that means everything is fair in principle, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.
Mack – who still writes the long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out but now rarely does stand-up – also said too often now jokes are judged without looking at the intention behind them.
He said: ‘Basically there’s nothing you can’t joke about, nothing.
‘But for me the joke has to be funnier than it is shocking.
‘So the more shocking the subject, the better the joke has to be.
“And there are topics that are so shocking that no one is good enough to come up with a joke that’s funnier than shocking.”
It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be off limits – as long as it’s funny enough
“So in principle you can joke about anything, but in practice you can’t because no one is that good.”
He added: ‘You could say, ‘What about this horrific event, could you make a joke?’ In principle yes.
“But it could take me two years to write a magical joke about it that was more funny than shocking, and I would never succeed.
‘And that’s the problem. Sometimes comedians make jokes that just aren’t funny enough because they have to be even funnier when it’s so shocking.”
