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THIS is the difficult numbers question on The 1% Club that knocked out 17 players.

Lee Mack fronts the smash-hit ITV game show with a difference in a primetime slot on the weekend.

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Lee Mack fronts The 1% Club on ITV
Screenshot of a game show question: What is the missing number in the sequence from 1 to 61?  The number 29 is missing.
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He tasked players with solving a difficult numbers question

Instead of testing players on their general knowledge, 100 contestants try their luck at solving riddles within 30 seconds.

On The 1% Club, they are whittled down round by round as they are tasked with using their logic, reasoning skills, and common sense.

With every player that gets eliminated, £1,000 gets added to the prize pot as the players try to answer questions that certain percentages of the public would get right.

The players that remain at the end will fight to win a potentially huge jackpot prize and a chance at joining the prestigious one percent club.

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Lee, 56, then moved on to the 70% question, which was a tricky numbers question.

He asked: "Here is a range of numbers from 1 to 61. What is the missing number?"

Below the question was a box full of bright numbers, which appeared to have a slightly jumbled look due to all the different rainbow colours.

As the players tried their best to spot the correct number, Lee joked: "If you find this stressful, think about the pressure I'm under.

"In a minute I've got to pretend my surprise that some of you got it wrong."

The number that was missing was '29,' something that a whopping 17 players failed to guess.

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In the end he was genuinely surprised as the audience, who also let out audible gasps.

He remarked: "Woah. Quite a lot that time, we lost 17 of you."

The presenter again could not quite believe the players that were eliminated from the show as he repeated: "It's 29. We lost 17 players there."

As such, the jackpot prize rose from £12,000 to £29,000 in one fell swoop.

The 1% Club's Most Difficult Questions

The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show's most difficult teasers.

  • Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides.
  • Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left.
  • Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here.
  • Peter had recently found his old diary that he'd written in secret code but he couldn't remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here.
  • A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49.  Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to?
  • And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER
Number puzzle: Find the missing number from 1 to 61.
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Would you have answered this correctlyCredit: ITV
Screenshot of the 17 Out game show set.
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Lee Mack was shocked when 17 players were eliminated from the game
Screenshot of a game show question: What is the missing number in the sequence from 1 to 61?  The answer 29 is shown.
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He revealed the answer was the number 29
Screenshot of a game show displaying a prize of £29,000.
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As such, the jackpot was raised by over £10kCredit: itv

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

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