A PLAYER on The 1% Club failed to make show history after getting the £100k question wrong – but could you have done it?

Saturday night’s show saw the jackpot reach £100,000, which host Lee Mack revealed was very rare.

Man in blue shirt on game show.
A player on The 1% Club failed to make show history after getting the £100k question wrong
 

Word puzzle: What two letters replace the question marks in "E times ?? equals LEAVE," given that "TE times T equals MESSAGE" and "TO times IN equals POISON"?
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After the 5% question, only one player – a man called Steve – was left standing, and Lee told him he would become the “first person ever to win the full £100k” if he took the gamble and got it right.

Steve admitted the £10,000 he had secured for making it to the final question as a lot of money, but he was willing to gamble to try and land the jackpot.

His decision took Lee by surprise, but he then revealed the 1% question which was: “What two letters replace the question marks?”

Underneath the rest of the puzzling question read: “TE times T equals MESSAGE. TO times IN equals POISON. E times ?? equals LEAVE.”

After his 30 seconds were up, Steve revealed he had locked in his answer as “NE.”

There was a dramatic pause, then Lee revealed he had got it wrong, with the correct answer being “IT” and the explanation: “If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you form words with the same meaning as the words on the right.”

Viewers of The 1% Club were disappointed for Steve, with one writing on X: “Wow… I am gutted for Steve today. We could’ve had our first £100,000 winner… ah well.”

Another added: “I went out on 70% but got the 1% right. Bad luck, Steve, fair play for having a go.”

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A third commented: “Well Steve did super well to get to the 1% question. Whereas I got as far as 30% playing from home.”

Last week, two players made it to the final question and had the chance to win £94,000.

However they both opted to take their half of the £10,000, rather than risk not winning anything if they didn’t get the last question right.

For one player, it was the right decision as she ended up getting the 1% question wrong.

 

But for the other woman, it was her worst nightmare as it turned out she would have been right and would have taken the whole jackpot for herself.

Quiz: What two letters replace the question marks in TEXT, TOXIN, and EXIT to equal MESSAGE, POISON, and LEAVE?
The answer was revealed to be IT
The 1% Club airs on Saturdays on ITV and is available on ITVX.