Here you’ll see The 1% Club questions and answers for UK Season 4 (or Series 4) for 2025. Following UK Season 3 and the US version of the show, every episode asks contestants questions based on logic and common sense that increase in difficulty. Many of these are brain-teasers and riddles that require outside-of-the-box thinking and attention to detail. Comedian Lee Mack is once again the host for this popular game show. Here’s a list of every question and answer for the 2025 UK episodes of The 1% Club.
List of The 1% Club (UK) questions and answers for 2025
Below is a list of The 1% Club questions and answers for each episode in Season 4. They are presented in chronological order with the answers hidden (you can click on the arrows to reveal them). You can use the quick list to advance to the exact episode you want the answers for. We’ll update this guide as more episodes in Season 4 are released.
Episode 1 Questions and Answers – January 25, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Sara has almost finished this crossword and just has 7 down left to fill in. The clue is: Investigate. Which of these is the correct answer? [Image above]
- (A) EXPLORE
- (B) EXAMINE
- (C) EXPOSE
Answer to 90% Question
– (A) EXPLORE. Only A fits in the grid.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Spot the difference between these two images. [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– The image on the right has an extra dog.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is incorrect? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– (C). Change the images to words to make new words. DUCKLONGING is not a word.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Although some have been rotated, which two of these flags are exactly the same? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– Flags A and C.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Eight people are in a circle, either standing up (U) or sitting down (D) as shown below. Everyone who is standing up sits down and vice versa. How many people are now standing? [image above]
Answer to 50% Question
– 5. You just needed to count how many people were sitting down, as they will end up standing.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Have a look at this bathroom floor covered in square tiles. If each square tile features eight triangles, how many square tiles were used to cover this floor? [image above]
Answer to 45% Question
– 20. [It would be a 4 by 5 grid.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: If there were no vowels at all, what would be the 13th letter of the alphabet?
Answer to 40% Question
– Q. The list goes B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P and Q.
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words is still a recognised word if you substitute the first letter for the next letter in the alphabet and the last letter for the previous letter in the alphabet?
- (A) BRINK
- (B) CROWN
- (C) CREST
Answer to 35% Question
– (C) CREST. [The instructions would turn this word into DRESS.]
30% Question & Answer
Q: Below is the recipe for a Big Mack burger. If I have nine whole buns, nine cheese slices, eight tomato slices, and ten patties, what is the maximum number of Big Mack burgers I can make? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– 5. Each burger has two patties so ten patties limit the number of burgers to five. [It is assumed that the buns are cut in half.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: How many pairs of anagrams are there in the following sentence?
Alice, Dan, Celia and Enid hoped to dine well on the plane from Nepal.
Answer to 25% Question
– 4. [Alice & Celia, Dan & and, Enid & dine, plane & Nepal.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: What number replaces the question mark in the sequence below?
7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ? 9 7 8 8
Answer to 20% Question
– 6. The sequence is the number of letters in the names of the months in a calendar year. The question mark represents August and there are six letters in August.
15% Question & Answer
Q: In the puzzle below, what four words replace the question mark?
Shatter the frozen water = Break the ice
You can’t access a novel by its dust jacket = You can’t judge a book by its cover
Illustrious intellects imagine identically = ?
Answer to 15% Question
– Great minds think alike.
10% Question & Answer
Q: If you change the letter at the beginning of the first word, the letter in the middle of the second word and the letter at the end of the third word, they all now have something in common. What is it?
CAT BOATS SCARE
Answer to 10% Question
– Clothes. You can change CAT to HAT, BOATS to BOOTS, and SCARE to SCARF. [This is a tricky one since there are a lot of possibilities for word changes. The main thing to focus on are what SCARE could change into, which would be SCARF, SCARS, and SCARY, as well as what BOATS could turn into, which would be BOLTS, BOOTS, and BOUTS. From there, you can make a clothing connection between BOOTS and SCARF.]
5% Question & Answer
Q: You have a pack of 52 playing cards in your hand and decide to sort them into alphabetical order. The ACE of CLUBS, ACE of DIAMONDS, ACE of HEARTS and ACE of SPADES are the first four cards you place on the table. If you carried on this sequence, what would be the LAST card you would place down?
Answer to 5% Question
– TWO of SPADES.
1% Question & Answer
Q: Answer the puzzle below:
How many dots (i.e. “.”) – including any used in punctuation and letters… – are used in writing this question?
Answer to 1% Question
– 17. [“i.e.” has 2 periods, “…” has 3 dots, “?” has 1 dot, and “.” has 1 dot. And then there are 10 i’s in the question.]
Episode 2 Questions and Answers – February 1, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Four people are in a maze trying to reach the centre. Which of them is going the wrong way? [image above]
Answer to 90% Question
– B. [Person B is heading toward dead ends.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Lee always paints a circle. Lee never paints squares. Lee always paints four triangles. Which of these is one of Lee’s paintings? [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– A. B has squares and C has only three triangles so it must be A.
70% Question & Answer
Q: What board game is represented here? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– Scrabble. S + CRAB + BALL.
60% Question & Answer
Q: How many squares make up this pattern? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– 4.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the words that follow this sentence don’t follow the word “follow” in this questions?
- (A) this
- (B) in
- (C) the
- (D) of
Answer to 50% Question
– D. [The sentence has “follow this”, “follow the”, and “‘follow’ in”.]
45% Question & Answer
Q: Alistair’s dream celebrity dinner party would be Cameron Diaz, Ella Fitzgerald and Glenn Hoddle. What is Alistair’s surname?
- (A) Green
- (B) White
- (C) Coral
- (D) Brown
Answer to 45% Question
– D. The initials of all the guests are consecutive letters, so his surname must begin with B.
40% Question & Answer
Q: What sport replaces the question mark? [image above]
Answer to 40% Question
– GOLF. [GOAL – AL + LF = GOLF]
35% Question & Answer
Q: These are all the UK coins in order of size from smallest to largest. How many stay in the same position when they are laid out in value order from lowest to highest instead? [image above]
Answer to 35% Question
– One. [Only the largest coin, the two pound coin, stays in the same place.]
30% Question & Answer
Q: What word replaces the question mark? [image credit]
Answer to 30% Question
– GREEN. The words in each box dictate the colour of the next box.
25% Question & Answer
Q: The answers to each of these clues all use the same three letters but in different orders. What are those three letters?
POSSESS
IMMEDIATELY
VICTORIOUS
Answer to 25% Question
– O, W, and N. [POSSESS = OWN, IMMEDIATELY = NOW, and VICTORIOUS = WON.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: What weather-related phrase is represented here?
Emperor Tiger. King Tabby. Queen Spaniel. Empress Labrador.
Answer to 20% Question
– Raining cats and dogs. Emperor, king, queen, and empress all ‘reign’. Tiger and tabby are cats and spaniel and labrador are dogs.
15% Question & Answer
Q: What two letters can be placed in front of the following five words to create five new common words?
__APED __INK __ONE __OWNED __OUGHT
Answer to 15% Question
– D and R. [Adding ‘DR’ to these words becomes DRAPED, DRINK, DRONE, DROWNED, and DROUGHT.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Starting at 1, the first 10 odd numbers add up to 100. What do the first 10 even numbers add up to?
Answer to 10% Question
– 110. 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 18 + 20 = 110 OR you could just add 10 to 100 as each even number is 1 higher than the previous odd number.
5% Question & Answer
Q: Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence below?
P H E A S A N T O R T O I S E A L I O N
Answer to 5% Question
– 6. PHEASANT, SEALION, ANT, SEAL, TORTOISE and LION. [Yes, ants are animals.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: The words below share a specific pattern. Why could VOTING also be part of the group?
BANDLEADER NICKELODEON SILVERBACK
Answer to 1% Question
– They all contain the names of metals. [BANDLEADER has LEAD, NICKELODEON has NICKEL, and SILVERBACK has SILVER.]
Episode 3 Questions and Answers – February 8, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these does not make a word when the letters are placed in reverse order?
- (A) STUN, (B) DUST, (C) SNUB
Answer to 90% Question
– B: DUST. [DUST reversed is TSUD, which isn’t a word.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Shanti is bored and removes her sunglasses, keys, pen, train ticket and lipstick from her handbag, puts them in alphabetical order and takes a photo from above. Which of these is the correct photo?
Answer to 80% Question
– B. [In alphabetical order, it goes Keys, Lipstick, Pen, Sunglasses, and Train Ticket.]
70% Question & Answer
Q: Serena is about to cast a vote for her local council. She picks the candidate with a name that is an anagram of ‘electoral system’. Who does she vote for?
- (A) Caroline Genteel
- (B) Scarlett Moseley
- (C) Nicola Gollete
- (D) Phil Gobolton
- (E) Lexi Plot
Answer to 70% Question
– B: Scarlett Moseley. It’s the only name that has any Ss.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Amlan is very particular about how he lays out the apps on his home screen. Which of these completes Amlan’s layout? [image above]
- (A) PLUM
- (B) BAKE
- (C) MILK
Answer to 60% Question
– C: MILK. [The logos on the apps spell out DON’T CRY OVER SPILT… and so MILK completes the sequence.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: If even numbers are blue and odd numbers are red, what colour is red + red?
Answer to 50% Question
– A: Blue. Two odd numbers always make an even number so two red make a blue.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Without reordering any letters, what fruit appears in the sentence below?
I’D MAKE MY OWN JUICE WHILE MONEY ROLLS IN
Answer to 45% Question
– LEMON. [It’s found between WHILE and MONEY.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: What one letter replaces the asterisks to complete this sentence?
*I**A’S *AM*ERED *U**IES *OO* ON *UR*LE *A*ER
Answer to 40% Question
– P. [This creates the sentence PIPPA’S PAMPERED PUPPIES POOP ON PURPLE PAPER.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the options links the following? [image above]
Answer to 35% Question
– D: CAR. The word CAR goes in front of each of the words to make new words. [This creates the words CARPET, CARGO, and CARNATION.
30% Question & Answer
Q: If you begin at one of the corners of this square and move clockwise around the outer edge to finish in the centre, what nine-letter word can you spell?
Answer to 30% Question
– SEARCHING. [Start with the letter S and go clockwise around the board.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: Jim is 6 ft 3 inches tall and when his friend Erica stands on a stool which is one foot tall, she becomes 2 inches taller than him. How tall is Erica?
Answer to 25% Question
– 5 ft 5 inches. 6 ft 3 plus 2 inches = 6 ft 5, then take away one foot for the stool = 5 ft 5 inches.
20% Question & Answer
Q: What is the minimum number of arrows you need to turn for all the arrows to be pointing in the same direction? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– 10. There are more arrows pointing up than any other direction so you need to turn the others to match.
15% Question & Answer
Q: Sam’s brother was his best man and Lucy’s sister was her maid of honour. In the seating plan from their wedding, how many people are sitting next to a blood relative? [image above]
Answer to 15% Question
– 4. [The Best Man and Groom’s Mother are blood relatives. So are the Bride and Bride’s Father.]
10% Question & Answer
Q: Is saw this newspaper headline on a ski trip. Which word is the odd one out?
Skiing officials allegedly announce accidents will soon require immediate attention
Answer to 10% Question
– “require”. It’s the only word that doesn’t contain double letters.
5% Question & Answer
Q: What replaces the question marks in this sequence?
JF3128 MA3130 MJ3130 ??????
Answer to 5% Question
– JA3131. The sequence consists of the initial letters of the months of the year followed by the number of days in those months. The next in the sequences is July August 3131.
1% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove all the underlined letters from the sentence below, what word can be spelt if you rearrange all of the remaining letters?
ANIMAL TO SHUN IN STAMPEDE
Answer to 1% Question
– ELEPHANT.
Episode 4 Questions and Answers – February 15, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: The contents of this can have been shaken up. What two-word food is in the can? (image above)
Answer to 90% Question
– TOMATO SOUP.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these words links the following images? (image above)
- (A) COLD, (B) CODE, (C) CURL
Answer to 80% Question
– B: CODE. Combining CODE with the three images leads to dress CODE, Green Cross CODE, and barCODE.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these dominos has more spots than the number of wheels on two tricycles but fewer than the legs on two zebras? (image above)
Answer to 70% Question
– B. There are six wheels on two tricycles and eight legs on two zebras so it has to be B. [It has seven dots.]
60% Question & Answer
Q: Sisters Holly, Alisha, Steph and Eliza all booked an appointment at their favourite hairdresser on the same day. Steph went after Alisha and Holly were first. If Eliza went after Steph, what order did the girls go in?
- (A) Holly, Steph, Alisha, Eliza
- (B) Holly, Eliza, Alisha, Steph
- (C) Holly, Alisha, Steph, Eliza
Answer to 60% Question
– C. [In A Steph doesn’t go after Alisha. And in B Eliza doesn’t go after Steph.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words includes a number in it which is NOT the same as the number of letters in the word?
- (A) WEIGHTED
- (B) HORNINESS
- (C) EXTENSION
Answer to 50% Question
– C. WEIGHTED has 8 letters. HORNINESS has 9 letters. EXTENSION does not have 10 letters.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Which single letter replaces all the question marks to make a word?
?A??OOIS?
Answer to 45% Question
– T. [This forms the word TATTOOIST.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words cannot have a letter removed to leave a real word that sounds exactly the same as before?
- (A) Chord, (B) Boarder, (C) Source, (D) Mourning
Answer to 40% Question
– C. [Chord can be turned into Cord, Boarder into Border, and Mourning into Morning.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: What one word do these three phrases all have in common?
Loud unpleasant noise
Tennis equipment
Fraudulent activity
Answer to 35% Question
– Racket. They are all different definitions of the rocket ‘racket’.
30% Question & Answer
Q: In a new word game, you score one point for every letter in the word. Then you take off two points if the word contains the letter E. Finally, double the points if the word contains a double letter. Which of these words would score the highest?
- (A) QUIZ
- (B) FITTING
- (C) CORRECT
- (D) QUICKSAND
Answer to 30% Question
– B. [FITTING will score 14 points. Meanwhile, QUIZ will score 4 points, CORRECT 10 points, and QUICKSAND 9 points.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: What number replaces the question mark below? (image above)
Answer to 25% Question
– 12. The number on the left is the total number of lines in the number on the left. More lines have been added to the ones and sevens as you go down the list.
20% Question & Answer
Q: The words in each square have something in common that puts them in that square. Which of these words can go into all three squares?
- (A) STOP
- (B) BRING
- (C) LEVEL
- (D) PEEP
Answer to 20% Question
– D: PEEP. The word needs to read the same backwards and forwards (first square), end with a P (second square) and have four letters (third square).
15% Question & Answer
Q: You roll three standard dice to find a three-digit number, e.g. 235. What is the highest number you can roll where all digits add up to 10?
Answer to 15% Question
– 631.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Each of the gaps below can be filled by a different three-letter sequences that goes after the first word and before the second word to make two new words. What nine-letter word is made when you put the three sequences together, in order?
HANDLE _ _ _ BELL
FORGOT _ _ _ ANT
SHRED _ _ _ BY
Answer to 10% Question
– BARTENDER. [BAR completes HANDLEBAR and BARBELL. TEN completes FORGOTTEN and TENANT. DER completes SHREDDER and DERBY.]
5% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove all the words in this sentence that contain recurring letters within them, which becomes the ninth word in this sentence?
Answer to 5% Question
– word. [‘Recurring letters’ here means letters that occur more than once in a word.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: What common four-word phrase is represented here?
SPRAINED ANKLE + “YOU ARE STUPID!”
Answer to 1% Question
– ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.
Episode 5 Questions and Answers – February 22, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is the largest?
- (A) CIRCLE
- (B) TRIANGLE
- (C) RECTANGLE
- (D) SQUARE
Answer to 90% Question
– C: RECTANGLE. RECTANGLE is nine letters long. All the others are shorter. [Yes, the wording of the question is strange.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Here is a photograph and floorplan of Hassan’s bungalow. In which room has he left the light on? [image above]
- (A) KITCHEN
- (B) BATHROOM
- (C) BEDROOM
- (D) LIVING ROOM
Answer to 80% Question
– C: BEDROOM.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these structures is made up of a different set of blocks to the other two? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– C. C has a difference orange block and is missing the green bridge.
60% Question & Answer
Q: What four-letter word replaces the question mark?
SOFTENING –> SONG
RADIOACTIVE –> RAVE
WHITECOAT –> WHAT
FAVOURITE –> ?
Answer to 60% Question
– FATE. Each new word is created by using the first two and the last two letters of the original.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Adding what single letter to CONTACT makes it smaller?
Answer to 50% Question
– R. Adding an R makes it CONTRACT.
45% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove a playing card from the first word, a pet from the second word, an insect from the third word and a drink from the fourth word, what number appears?
FACE COAT AUNT TEAR
Answer to 45% Question
– FOUR. [Remove ACE from FACE, CAT from COAT, ANT from AUNT, and TEA from TEAR.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: What three-letter word has a similar meaning when read backwards and also if you move the first letter to the end becomes apt?
Answer to 40% Question
– TAP. When read backwards, TAP becomes PAT and if you move the first letter to the end, TAP becomes APT.
35% Question & Answer
Q: What single word goes in the gaps below to make new words?
QUICK_____
THOU_____
_____STONE
Answer to 35% Question
– SAND. [This makes QUICKSAND, THOUSAND, and SANDSTONE.
30% Question & Answer
Q: What common phrase does this picture represent? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– TWO PEAS IN A POD.
25% Question & Answer
Q: Which three different whole numbers – all lower than 10 – give you the same total whether you add them together or multiply them together?
Answer to 25% Question
– 1, 2, and 3. 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6.
20% Question & Answer
Q: There is only one number missing from this pattern? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– 4. There’s one 1, two 2s, three 3s and five 5s but only three 4s.
15% Question & Answer
Q: If my old brown woolly jumper contains two holes for every o in this sentence, how many holes are there?
Answer to 15% Question
– 22. The letter o appears 11 times. 11 x 2 = 22.
10% Question & Answer
Q: There are four letters written on the circle. The other letters are all outside the circle. You need to turn the circle clockwise until a colour is spelt out. How many 90 degree turns do you need to make? [image above]
Answer to 10% Question
– 2. After two turns, the p turns to d so the word red appears.
5% Question & Answer
Q: Today, the three witches in Macbeth are discussing when the three should meet again. Witch 1 is available every fourth day, Witch 2 is available every fifth day, and Witch 3 is available every sixth day. How many days from today will they be able to meet again?
Answer to 5% Question
– 60 days. 60 is the first number that is divisible by four, five and six.
1% Question & Answer
Q: Peter has recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he can’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Can you check the code to find out what the underlined word is?
WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72
Answer to 1% Question
– FLORIST. Where he could, he replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter. [An alternate method is figuring out that the 1 is an O from GR1W (GROW) and the 2 is a T from WA92 (WANT). That makes the last word _LORI_T, and from there it shouldn’t be too hard to work out the missing letters to form an occupation.
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