Viewers stumped by quiz show question that less than 2 in 10 people can solve - and some are convinced the answer is wrong

Viewers have been left baffled by a question that only two in 10 people can answer. 

The 1% Club is an Australian quiz show, based on the British program of the same name, that involves contestants putting their logic, reasoning and common sense skills to use.

The show begins with 100 participants competing, with the number slowly decreasing as they try to answer a question that only one percent of the nation got right in hopes of winning up to $129K.

In one episode, only 15 percent of people were able to come up with an answer to a question that confused many people on social media.

In the clip shared online, host Jim Jefferies can be heard asking: “Frodo has forgotten his hotel room number. All he remembers is that it had at least one 'nine'.

"If the hotel has rooms numbered one to 100, how many might be Frodo's?" he added.

Sounds like a simple question right?

The average person would try to work it by counting all the numbers that have 'nine' from 1 to 100.

So this includes 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99 - making it 19 possible rooms in total.

However, viewers on TikTok were stumped and refused to accept that '19' was the right answer.

One person wrote that they thought it was 18 "because they said at least one nine so I thought 99 can’t be right," and another agreed, writing: "It should have been 18. Saying at least one is 9, indicates that the room number is double digit."

A third user thought that "it should be 20," while a fourth questioned: "Wait? How come 99 was included? The question was phrased, it had at least one 9. I'm so confused right now."

The 1% club is hosted by Jim Jeffries. Credit: Matthew Simmons / Getty

Meanwhile, others were left shocked by the commentors believing that the answer is anything below "19" and shared their hilarious responses.

"Only 15% get this!? It's just to count..." someone quipped. "The amount of people in the comments that don’t understand the adverb ‘at least’ is shocking," a second slammed.

Another person explained: "There are 10 numbers that start with 9, and 10 numbers that end with 9, with only one one of them overlapping, so 19."

Are you part of the 15% that got the answer correct?

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