A contestant on The 1% Club walked away with £10,000 after a premonition told her to take the money and run.
Appearing on Saturday night’s episode of the Lee Mack-fronted gameshow, Liz was one of the hundred hopefuls vying for its £100k jackpot.
As the episode ended, Liz became the only contestant to make it to the final and most difficult question.
The last question would have been this: ‘If you can roll six different numbers using one standard die, how many different totals can you make by rolling three identical standard dice?’
Liz revealed that her guess would have been 102 – a far cry from the correct answer (16, in case you were wondering).
After some ruminating, she decided to take the £10k she’d already won – a course of action inspired by a dream she’d had the night before.
‘It’s very weird, Lee, because I got to this point in my dream last night, and then I decided I wanted to take the ten,’ Liz said.
She continued: ‘But something went really wrong, and I ended up playing for the full money, and then I didn’t know the answer.’
As she weighed up her choice, Liz even made 1% Club history by asking the 99 eliminated contestants what they thought she should do.
She then told Lee that she would be taking the money.
Earlier in the episode, Liz had remarked how she would use her winnings to buy her husband a ticket for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Viewers’ minds were blown by the turn of events, with DavidJosephLaw2 writing on X: ‘No way her dream came true’
WhoPotterVian agreed: ‘This woman who had that dream must be psychic,’ while Imtherealanon praised Liz for ‘making the correct decision.’
‘Well done that lass,’ clapped Erasmo2058, joining the show’s official account as they shared their congratulations.
Liz may have left with her head held high, but others were dismayed by how ‘easy’ the final question seemed to be.
ganim_chris described it as ‘the easiest 1% question of all time,’ while industriaditat claimed that the riddle took ‘about 2 seconds’ to solve.
‘That was easy I thought,’ agreed Deank06, joining orca_chaser and others in their opinion of it being ‘way too easy for a 1% question.’
Earlier this year, teacher Maccisha became the first person to take home the £100k jackpot in full.
Answering a question that came as a sequence of numbers, Maccisha’s win was made even more impressive by doing so in 30 seconds flat.
And in December, a student from Liverpool also took home the £100k sum on its spin-off show, The 1% Club Rollover.
Law student Lucie Alcock had been faced with a tricky question that asked which letter of the alphabet came next in a sequence.
The correct answer was the letter that came next in the names of shapes that were each missing the same number of letters from the beginning of their names as the number of sides they had.
While social media users dubbed the question ‘impossible,’ Lucie managed to pip three other competitors to the post, taking home the full cash prize.
This makes her the first winner outside of the celebrity edition – which was won for charity by Clarke Carlisle in June last year.
The 1% Club returns to ITV1 and ITVX on Saturday, February 14, at 8:30pm
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