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  "path": "/2026/06/01/1-clubs-maths-question-children-stumps-viewers-get-right-28603454/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T15:35:10.000Z",
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    "Entertainment",
    "TV",
    "Lee Mack",
    "Quiz questions",
    "The 1% Club",
    "with mind-bending teasers",
    "Disney",
    "Florida",
    "puzzler involving triangles.",
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  "textContent": "The 1% Club put younger contestants in the hot seat this time (Picture: ITV)\n\nThe 1% Club has become a TV phenomenon since it hit screens in 2022 — keeping us all gripped with mind-bending teasers that only the most lateral of thinkers can solve.\n\nGiven the show has contestants from all walks of life taking part, it was only a matter of time before the younger generation had the chance to step up and give it a go.\n\nThe 1% Club kids special, which aired late last month, saw Lee Mack presiding over 100 contestants aged between nine and 15, who were tackling those tricky teasers in a bid to win a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida.\n\nBut just because the questions might have been aimed at a younger audience doesn’t mean the viewers at home found them any less challenging.\n\nCould you have got this question right? Don’t make us tap the sign (Picture: ITV)\n\nTake this one, for example, which appeared at the 25% stage of the game, with 26 contestants remaining.\n\nIt was as follows: ‘On Hannah’s 6th birthday, she went to a theme park. She really wanted to ride this rollercoaster but she was only one metre tall. Every year, Hannah gets five centimetres taller. How old will she be when she becomes able to ride the rollercoaster?’\n\nThe accompanying imagery showed a sign saying: ‘To ride, you must be at least 140cm tall or 12 years old.’\n\n‘This is just like being back at school isn’t it, only with a really cool supply teacher,’ Lee Mack joked, before revealing that five of the contestants had been eliminated by the question.\n\nThe episode saw 100 nine to 15-year-olds tackle those tricky teasers (Picture: ITV)\n\nWe admit, we did a double take when we saw this one, given that the answer, that Hannah would have to be 12 years old (the minimum age allowed to board the ride), appeared to be sitting right in front of us.\n\nBut actually this one still involved some maths given that we were told Hannah grew five centimetres every year, meaning contestants had to work out if she would reach the required height _before_ she turned 12.\n\nShe would be 14 years old by the time met the height requirement, but Lee Mack explained: ‘On her 12th birthday she’ll be able to ride the rollercoaster despite only being 130cm tall’.\n\nOne of the contestants, Matilda, later explained how she got the answer, saying: ‘I looked at the question while you were reading it and I didn’t work it out so I just put 12.’\n\nA guess, in other words. But a pretty spot-on one. And while most of the young contestants got it, it still baffled some of the older folks at home.\n\n‘I’m out…because I didn’t read the sign properly,’ confessed one viewer on X.\n\nAnd that wasn’t the only question that kept the viewers guessing, with one person adding: ‘Fantastic series and I’ve voted for the NTAs but still didn’t get the 1% question right.’\n\nFive of the contestants made it through to the final question (Picture: ITV)\n\nUltimately, five of the contestants – Immie, Ellie, Finley, Alayna and Olly – made it as far as the 1% question, with Ellie and Finley going on to become proud members of the 1% club as they won those coveted Walt Disney trips.\n\nThey did it by answering the following question: ‘What number replaces the question mark in this pyramid?’ complete with an pyramid image featuring the numbers 9 on the top row, 8 and 10 on the second,9 and 7 – followed bythe missing number on the next – and 10,8, 60 and 20 on the bottom row.\n\nThe answer? 13 – as each number is the average of the two numbers underneath it.\n\nWhile we’re still waiting for more new episodes, the show continues to rake in viewers on weekends with recent repeats keeping us all playing along.\n\nOne recent re-run saw players Christopher and Scott trying to win a share of £95,000 by defeating a puzzler involving triangles.\n\nThe triangle puzzle on a recent repeat of the show also floored the finalists (Picture: ITV)\n\nThe question was: How many triangles are there in this picture?\n\nThis one is a lot trickier than it looks because while some of the triangles within the image are obvious, there are others which aren’t quite so noticeable at first glance.\n\nWhile the correct answer was 18, Christopher guessed eight and Scott was just off the mark with an answer of 19.\n\nAll of which proves that it might be easy to play along at home, but sometimes the show’s questions can defy even the most logical brain.\n\nEspecially when you’ve got 30 seconds to figure out the answer.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "The 1% Club’s maths question for children stumps viewers — could you get it right?"
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