A 1% Club contestant lost £10,000 jackpot after struggling with the final question.

Player Brett made his way through the trivia game easily but on the last round, he chose to take a risky gamble instead of walking away with the prize.

If he answered correctly, he would win an eye-watering £96,000 and join the prestigious 1% Club, host Lee Mack explained.

As the presenter asked him to fill the gaps of several sentences using the same four-letter word so that they made sense, the player looked totally gobsmacked as he struggled to find the answer.

‘I didn’t know it. I put last. I just couldn’t see it,’ Brett explained to the host, who was looking for the word ‘only’.

The correct sentences read: ‘Only I am certain that he read the man’s notes. I am certain that only he had read the man’s notes. I am certain that he had read the man’s only notes.’

A 1% Club contestant lost £10,000 jackpot after struggling with the final question

If he answered correctly, he would win an eye-watering £96,000 and join the prestigious 1% Club, host Lee Mack (pictured) explained

‘Brett, unlucky. That was a big gamble. You did brilliant to get this far and you have of course got your £1,000. SO congratulations,’ Lee told the contestant in a bid to console him.

‘Unfortunately you didn’t make it into the 1% Club, but you can walk away knowing that you did better than the rest of the people in this room tonight, so well done you!’

That comes after a question on the 1% Club drove a finalist to walk away from a whopping £94,000 jackpot in the latest episode.

Saturday night’s instalment of the ITV quiz show saw 100 contestants attempt to win a huge cash prize.

The programme’s questions were put to the public, with the percentage who got it right determining the difficulty of each round.

Aptly, the final quiz is one that just 1 per cent of the public answered correctly and in the recent episode two finalists were so concerned about answering it that that neither attempted to.

Instead, they opted to walk away with their share of £10,000 and not take a punt at the £94,000 question.

Lee still read out the question after their decision: ‘Yolande takes one tablet on every day of the week that has three vowels in total in it. She starts this pack on 2nd March. What date will she need to start a new pack?’

As the presenter asked him to fill the gaps of several sentences using the same four-letter word so that they made sense, the player looked totally gobsmacked as he struggled to find the answer

‘I didn’t know it. I put last. I just couldn’t see it,’ Brett explained to the host, who was looking for the word ‘only’

However, one of the players, Sara, had a go and managed to get it correct, meaning she missed out on the huge jackpot.

The answer was Tuesday, March 26.

‘I wanted to not go home empty handed,’ Sara explained. 

Lee replied: ‘I still think you’ve done the right thing given how difficult these questions can be.’

The 1% Club airs Saturdays on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.