A third of contestants on Saturday's episode of The 1% Club were eliminated by a challenging bird-related puzzle. The show, hosted by Lee Mack, features 100 players competing for a potential £100,000 prize.
The question that stumped many was the 50% question, which read: 'If TRUE is 1234 and LOVE is 7654, what bird is 5371324?' After 30 seconds, two contestants were eliminated, and 20 used their pass to avoid answering.
Player Matt, who used his pass, later explained: 'No clue and then soon as the time was up, it became quite obvious what it was. It's VULTURE. If you replace the numbers with the appropriate letters in the question, you get VULTURE.'
This comes after a previous episode featured a logic puzzle about three couples on a date, which knocked out four players and forced 13 to use their pass. The answer required deducing that Nick and Charlotte were a couple, making Janice David's date.
In another recent episode, a player lost out on a £96,000 prize after passing on a difficult calendar question involving birth dates in May 2001.
