A riddle on The 1% Club left players scratching their heads – but can you solve it in just 30 seconds? 

A previous instalment of the ITV quiz show, hosted by Lee Mack, 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.

However, the 5% question caused problems for some contestants who couldn’t quite figure it out.

Lee read: ‘There is a five letter word where if you remove the first letter a bit remains.

A previous instalment of the ITV quiz show, hosted by Lee Mack, pictured, saw 100 contestants attempt to win a huge cash prize

However, the 5% question caused problems for some contestants who couldn’t quite figure it out

Lee revealed the answer was ‘habit’ and two players who failed to answer the question correctly were knocked out of the game

‘If you remove the second letter that bit is still there and if you take away the third letter it continues to be in place. What is the word?’

Lee revealed the answer was ‘habit’ and two players who failed to answer the question correctly were knocked out of the game.

‘Habit’ becomes ‘a bit’ after the ‘H’ is removed, and then ‘bit’ and ‘it’ when further letters are taken away. 

It comes as a brain-busting number question wiped out 23 contestants on Saturday’s episode of The 1% Club.

The 45% round saw many of the players exit the game show after failing to answer the question correctly. 

Host Lee asked: ‘Including the work ‘and’, what is the only number out of the numbers below that uses every vowel exactly once when spelt out?’ 

The contestants could pick from the numbers 107, 206 and 305.

But unfortunately the 45% round saw many of the players exit the game show after failing to answer the question correctly

They were given 30 seconds to work it out and revealed: ‘Right we lost 23 people on that one. 

‘Let’s have a look at the answer…

‘It is B. 206. And there in red are the vowels.’ 

23 contestants ultimately fell prey to the tricky conundrum. 

However, there was a huge success story from the show on Saturday after a single lucky player managed to bag a whopping £96,000. 

Lee asked: ‘I keep forgetting my four-digit pin number. I know each digit is higher than the previous digit but I need this diagram to remember it. What is my four-digit pin number?’

The question was followed by a sequence of letters.

Lee asked: ‘I keep forgetting my four-digit pin number. I know each digit is higher than the previous digit but I need this diagram to remember it. What is my four-digit pin number?’

On this occasion, just one contestant out of the three remaining managed to get the very last question correct

Lee revealed the answer to be 1489, with the numbers written out in the diagram. 

Dominic was the only player to answer correctly and bagged the huge prize pot. 

‘It’s 1489 which means Dominic Jackson, you have just joined the 1% club and have won everything in the prize pot, £96,000,’ Lee exclaimed. 

During the same episode, host Lee Mack left viewers outraged after making a ‘brutal’ comment about a contestant’s appearance.

Lee made the comment after asking contestant Diane Moorland what she would do with the prize money if she emerged victorious. 

Diane said that she’d love to get a nose job with any potential windfall.

While Lee appeared shocked at first, when Diane insisted that she has never liked the shape of her nose, he eventually concurred that cosmetic surgery would be a good idea.  

He said: ‘To be fair, it does look like thought that if you took your glᴀsses off the nose would come off as well.’ 

While Diane herself laughed at Lee’s response, it did not get a positive reaction from viewers. 

Lee made the comment during Saturday’s episode of the hit gameshow after asking contestant Diane Moorland what she would do with the prize money if she emerged victorious 

They were quick to take to social media so share their outrage about the host’s insensitive comment. 

One even said it would only have been acceptable if Lee had cleared the remark with  the contestant prior to filming.

The outraged viewers wrote: ‘Gosh, I hope the lady with the nose cleared it for Lee to take the p*** before the show. That was brutal!’;

‘F*** sake Lee. She’ll definitely have a complex about her nose now!’;

‘It was so mean of him.’;

‘That was quite insensitive.’  

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