Viewers of The 1% Club were left baffled by a question that seemed to have more than one answer on Saturday.

The show tests 100 members of the public’s intelligence, common sense and logic with questions that ascend in order of difficulty according to what proportion of the wider public can answer them – 90 per cent, 80 per cent, down to one per cent.

It read: ‘Amrit and his grandad share the same birthday. Their birthday balloons arrive muddled up. Amrit’s grandad is three times older than him. How old is Amrit?’

Four gold balloons were on display beneath the question shaped in the numbers six, eight, seven and two.

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Viewers of The 1% Club were left baffled by a question that seemed to have more than one answer on Saturday (show host Lee Mack pictured)

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This week, what appeared at first to be a straightforward question from the 30 per cent section, got some fans of the show worked up

It was anticipated the answer would be that Amrit is 26 years old, making his grandfather 78.

However, one person commented on the show’s official Instagram page, claiming: ‘My other half is adamant that his answer of 29 is also right.’

They added: ‘There’s no string on those balloons, therefore you could turn the 6 upside down. 3×29=87 What do you reckon? Was he still in, or was he out of the game?’

Viewers also took to Twitter to offer their thoughts, with one person writing: ‘Could’ve been 2 answers which is odd…flip the 6 round to a 9 and could’ve been 29 and 87.’

Someone else shared: ‘It could also be 29 ie one third of 87? If I had put that in the studio I would expect to Appeal!!! Previous questions have used balloons to switch 6 and 9s!!!’

While another person posted: ‘Hmm they should’ve drawn strings on the bottoms of the balloons if they wanted to avoid people turning the 6 upside down for 29 and 87.’

Meanwhile The 1% Club viewers also criticised the show recently for its ‘easy’ final question during a February episode.

The show tests 100 members of the public’s intelligence, common sense and logic with questions that ascend in order of difficulty according to what proportion of the wider public can answer them – 90 per cent, 80 per cent, down to one per cent.

It was anticipated the answer would be that Amrit is 26 years old, making his grandfather 78 bu some viewers suggested an alternative answer

The 1% question on the most recent episode was apparently not as difficult as the show thought as many viewers thought it was too simple.

The question was: ‘Using only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’.  The answer was ‘Possession’.

While this is a question that apparently 99% of the public can’t answer, plenty of X users got it right.

One user wrote: ‘Don’t usually get the last question but I saw that one instantly. Easy peasy.’

Another agreed, adding: ‘That was easier than the few before it.’

A third wrote: ‘Got it! Blimey I actually answered the 1% question!’

Another user jokingly wrote: ‘Getting tough this show,’ to which The 1% Cub’s Twitter account replied: ‘We’re tough cookies what can we say’.

The show, which has aired three series so far, is hosted by comedian Lee Mack.

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The question was: ‘Using only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘Possession’

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While this is a questin that apparently 99% of the public can’t answer, plenty of X users got it right

It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be off limits – as long as it is funny enough.

The Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke must be more funny than shocking.

But he said although that means in principle anything is fair game, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.

Mack – who still writes long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out, but now rarely does stand-up – also said too often now jokes have become judged without looking at the intention behind them.

He said: ‘In principle, there isn’t anything that you can’t do a joke about, nothing.

‘But for me, the joke has to be funnier than it is shocking.

‘So the more shocking the subject matter the better the joke has to be.

‘And there are some subject matters that are so shocking no one is good enough to think of a joke that is funnier than it is shocking.

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It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be off limits – as long as it is funny enough

‘So in principle you can do a joke about anything, but in practice you can’t because no one’s that good.’

He added: ‘You could go ‘what about this horrific event, would you be able to do a joke?’ In principle, yes.

‘But I could spend two years trying to write a magic joke about it that was more funny than shocking, and I’d never achieve it.

‘And that’s the problem. Sometimes comedians are doing jokes that just aren’t funny enough, because they have to be even funnier when it’s that shocking.’