The 1% Club is wrong today

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Does anyone do the 1% club on the app? If you have not done today's can you screenshot the question please and tell me... Is their answer wrong? Wish I could reread the question to know for sure

What did you answer? I answered but it froze so wouldn't let me see if i was correct.

Is it the socks?

40? As he's got 38 non black socks.

Yes that’s what I put and it was correct.

I also thought 40. What did they say?

40 socks

Oh, so we were all right as are they.

what did you think it was op?

It could be worded better. What is the minimum number of socks he needs to take out to be 100% certain of a pair of black ones

40 to get a pair of black socks
4 to get a matching pair, any colour
Better option, switch the light on

Thank you all... I now know I misread the question. I read he had 53 black... Not 53 in total. I'm the idiot. Thanks for putting me out of my misery

But how would that change the answer? What matters is the number of non-blacks (in absolute terms not as a percentage of the total).

Why dosen't the silly man switch the light on?

Because it might wake his sleeping wife. He's being considerate.

Surely this wasn't the 1% question? Seems far too easy.

I've never heard of the 1%, but I had an idea what it might be and then looked it up.
I was expecting to be bamboozled as I certainly don't regard myself as being in the top 1% of quizzers.

This was easy though.

Counting 40 socks out of his drawer in the dark would probably wake her anyway. Sort out your socks the night before or keep them somewhere else

He should put his socks away in pairs. Clearly doesn't belong in the 1% club for common sense.

I got it wrong as I misread and thought they were already paired, so the answer was 39.

Who has 53 socks? I have 28 - a pair a day for a fortnight. I also only buy black socks so I don't have to worry about pairing them.

I couldn't live with the type of man who has 17 pairs of identical red socks.

Worst case scenario is that he takes 38 and they're all the red or blue so the next two must be black!

1=they all look black in the dark?

As long as you buy always the same socks, otherwise it doesn't work, slightly different styles etc. as my late OH found when he did the same!

oh -still 1- but cos the quest is to ensure he HAS at least one pair of black. he has oodles of socks so will still have black ones

53-15+2 = 40