The 1% Club question wipes out 25 player with simple question - can you get it right?

At least 25 players were left stumped on a seemingly easy question on the latest instalment of The 1% Club. On Saturday (July 26), a vintage episode of the ITV quiz show returned to the airwaves. Host Lee Mack welcomed 100 hopeful contestants onto the show to see if they could win a hefty cash prize

The show's brain-scratching questions were put to the public, with the percentage who got it right determining the difficulty of each round. As the name implies, the final questions is one that just 1% of the British public managed to correctly answer.

This time, it was the 60% question that left players baffled, causing the crowd to gasp in shock at the sheer number of eliminated contestants. An image popped up on the big screen, depicting a golden brick wall with some of the bricks in the middle missing.

It was at this point that Lee asked: "How many bricks are missing from this wall? See if you can answer the easy puzzle that fooled so many.

The correct answer was 12, leaving a surprising 25 players packing their bags with just 70 optimistic players remaining. The live studio audience could hardly believe the result as the comic joined in when then number of wrong answers was revealed.

It comes after The 1% Club's return was confirmed, with ITV bosses announcing a huge shake-up to its format which is sure to "leave the nation hooked".

The quix show started in April 2022, and has since proven hugely successful with fans up and down the country, winning two National Television Awards.

The fourth series of the show, which is normally shown on Saturday nights, ended in May, but ITV have now announced that it will be returning to the airwaves in autumn in a brand-new form.

Instead of airing just one night a week, the program will be transformed to create a five-day special event, now names The 1% Club Rollover. The basic gameplay will remain the same - but if the prize pot is not won on one episode, it will roll over to the next day.

This format change will massively raise the stakes for players, who could be in with a chance for wining all five days taking the jackpot up to a staggering £500,000. But that's not all.

Anyone who gets as far as the final one per cent quiz question will automatically win the right to come back for the next episode of the week to play the game again.

This means if someone wins big during one show, they could still potentially bag even more the next episode - doubling, tripling or even quadrupling their winnings. The new five-day special recalls the structure of other popular newer quiz shows like Richard Osman's House of Games.

It capitalises on the existing success of the show, which is the biggest original quiz show in more than 10 years. The show regularly sees six million people tune in every episode and across its three-year run so far, it has been streamed more than 40million times.

The 1% Club has won two Broadcast Awards and a Rose d'Or, all for Best Entertainment Show. It was also awarded a Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Award for Best Game Show.

It has also received two BAFTA nominations for Best Entertainment Show and for Best Entertainment Performance by Lee Mack. Sue Murphy, ITV's head of factual entertainment, said: "The 1% Club Rollover as event TV is a perfect fit.

"The series continues to go from strength to strength and has become a must watch in homes across the country on Saturday nights. This special Rollover week will really be a primetime event that will have the nation hooked. Fibe nigths of The 1% Club and Lee Mack... What's not to like?"

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