1% Club fans were left shocked after all EIGHT final contestants walked away empty handed after failing to answer the last question correctly.
Eight men were the last players standing out of 100 in Tuesday night’s show after successfully making it to the 1% question.
But after being asked the big-money earner by The 1% Club‘s host Lee Mack, they all got it wrong and missed out on a share of the £97,000 prize pot.
The question, which in theory only one per cent of the UK population will be able to answer, was based on a graphic.
Lee asked: “What word is represented by this picture?”
The graphic showed the number eight in the middle of an ice cube.
The final constants had just 30 seconds to figure it out before locking in their answers.
Lee then announced: “Your time is up. Let’s see who got it right.”
After a tense pause, the entire studio was illuminated in red – indicating that no one answered correctly.
“I’m afraid you all got it wrong,” Lee told the disappointed players.
The TV funnyman then revealed the answer: Incubate (in-cube-eight).
There was a loud groan from the audience as they realised none of the eight players had joined the 1% Club.
Only one contestant walked away with any money – a chap called Jonathan, who was awarded £1,000 for not using his ‘pass’ card to skip any earlier questions.
“Commiserations,” Lee told the group. “You didn’t make it into the 1% Club but you can at least walk away knowing you did better than everyone else tonight.”
Fans at home who had been playing along shared their surprise at the final eight’s fall.
One wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “Not one person got it..!”
Another added: “The wheels on the brain bus well & truly fell off.”
And a third said: “Oh what a pity. None of them got it right, meaning that everyone leaves with absolutely nothing…apart from Jonathan, who keeps his £1k.”
Other fans shared their own guesses, including ‘infinite’, ‘eight squared’ and ‘eight cubed’.
The 1% Club has returned to ITV this week for a special four-episode run, airing each night from Monday (December 9) to Thursday (December 12).
Two 1% Club Christmas specials will also air this month, while Lee is also due to front another episode in support of Soccer Aid.
The 1% Club first hit screens in 2022 and has fast become one of TV’s most popular game shows.
In September, it won Best Quiz Game Show at the National Television Awards for the third year in a row.
It faced stiff competition but still beat The Wheel, Beat The Chasers, Richard Osman’s House of Games, and Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win.
