The 1% Club Finalist Walks Away With £10,000 After Refusing £98,000 Gamble — Then Discovers Her Dream May Have Saved Her

A 1% Club finalist got the last question wrong during the latest episodeCredit: ITV

A contestant on The 1% Club faced the ultimate dilemma when she became the only player remaining with a potential £98,000 jackpot within reach — but an unsettling dream from the night before convinced her not to take the risk.

Liz reached the final 1% question during the February 7 episode of the ITV game show, leaving host Lee Mack to ask whether she wanted to gamble her guaranteed £10,000 for a shot at the much larger prize.

Instead of immediately deciding, Liz did something Lee said had never happened on the show before: she turned to the other 99 contestants for advice.

Liz Asked the Entire Studio What She Should Do

Contestant Liz decided to take home the £10,000 rather than play for the cash prize of £98,000Credit: ITV

With £98,000 potentially on the line, Liz asked the eliminated contestants whether they thought she should play.

Lee invited the studio to cheer if they wanted her to gamble and clap if they believed she should take the money.

“That’s the first time anyone’s done that,” he remarked.

But there was another reason Liz was reluctant to risk her £10,000.

She revealed that the night before filming, she had experienced a remarkably specific dream about reaching almost exactly this situation.

In the dream, Liz wanted to take £10,000 home. Something then went wrong, forcing her to attempt the final question — and she lost.

Faced with a strangely familiar decision in reality, Liz decided not to tempt fate.

She took the £10,000.

Then Came the £98,000 Question

Were you able to answer the question correctly?Credit: ITV

Although Liz had already secured her money, The 1% Club still showed her the final question to discover whether walking away had been the correct decision.

It asked:

“If you can roll six different numbers using one standard dice, how many different totals can you make by rolling three identical standard dice?”

Liz said she would have answered 180.

Lee then revealed the correct answer: 16.

Had Liz chosen to gamble, she would have lost the £10,000 she had already secured.

Instead, her decision to trust her instincts — and perhaps that strange dream — meant she walked away with the money.

Why the Answer Is 16

The question sounds more complicated than it actually is.

With three standard six-sided dice, the smallest possible total is three, achieved by rolling three ones.

The largest possible total is 18, achieved by rolling three sixes.

Every whole-number total from 3 through 18 is possible.

That creates 16 different totals altogether.

Liz’s proposed answer of 180 would therefore have cost her the jackpot attempt.

After hearing the correct answer, she appeared relieved that she had chosen to stop at £10,000.

Viewers Couldn’t Get Over Her Dream

The unusual sequence immediately caught viewers’ attention.

Some praised Liz for resisting the temptation of the £98,000 prize, while others focused on the remarkable similarity between her dream and what eventually happened in the studio.

“Well played Liz. Respect for making the correct decision,” one viewer wrote.

Another joked: “This woman who had that dream must be psychic.”

A third remarked that her dream appeared to be coming true — except Liz had managed to avoid the losing ending by refusing the gamble.

In a show designed to test logic rather than general knowledge, Liz ultimately made her biggest decision without answering a question at all.

She listened to the room, remembered her dream and walked away with £10,000.

Only moments later did she discover just how costly ignoring that instinct would have been.