A recent episode of ITV's The 1% Club has sparked debate after a question intended for the top 1% of the population left some viewers baffled while others found it straightforward. The show, hosted by Lee Mack, challenges contestants with progressively harder puzzles, culminating in a final question that only 1% of people are expected to answer correctly.
The question presented was: 'If you remove all the underlined letters from the sentence below, what word can be spelt if you rearrange all of the remaining letters?' The sentence in question was 'one selling fresh salmon', with certain letters underlined. Contestants had 30 seconds to solve it mentally, without writing anything down.
After removing the underlined letters, the remaining letters were 'ONESIGFRHM'. Rearranging these, and considering the clue in the sentence, the correct answer is 'fishmonger'. The sentence itself serves as a hint, describing someone who sells fresh salmon.
Reactions on TikTok were mixed. Some viewers called it 'impossible', while others insisted it was 'so easy'. One commenter noted: 'It's easy if you read the clue in the sentence.' However, several people submitted incorrect answers such as 'fisherman', 'freshing', 'aloneness', and 'reformings'.
