The Floor is a game show that premiered on Nine Network on 28 April 2025. It is currently being hosted by Rodger Corser. The series is an adaptation of the Dutch format created by John de Mol. Contestants challenge adjacent opponents in timed duels, aiming to take over their opponents' squares and expand their own territory. The game progresses as players choose opponents and categories, with the ultimate goal of controlling the entire floor to win the grand prize of $200,000.
The first season featured 81 contestants on a 9x9 grid. On 24 October 2024, it was announced that Nine had ordered the series' first season at their 2025 upfronts. Nine began applications for the second season's casting on 20 May 2025 after the success of the first. The second season premiered on 19 April 2026 with the same host. A third season was announced in September 2026 which will premiere in 2027.
Contents
Format
Contestants stand on separate square spaces of a large grid on the studio floor (a 9x9 grid). Each contestant has a category in which they feel particularly knowledgeable.
One contestant is chosen at random (via "The Randomizer") to be a challenger and shown the categories of all opponents whose territories share at least one side with their own, then chooses one of them to challenge face-to-face in a head-to-head duel. The specifics of the duel remain undisclosed until the challenger selects an opponent, with the format defaulting to visual unless specified otherwise by the host. The two contestants take turns identifying a series of images or words associated with the challenged opponent's category. They are each given separate 45-second clocks, only one of which runs at any given time, starting with the challenger. The contestant in control must give a correct answer in order to stop their clock and turn control over to their opponent. Infinite guesses are allowed without penalty, and a contestant may pass whenever desired; however, they must wait three seconds for a new image or text to be shown. Some categories are text-based, requiring contestants to perform tasks such as filling in the missing word(s) of a book title or song lyric, or naming the movie from which a famous quote is taken. Once a category has been selected and played, it is permanently removed from play and cannot be chosen again. In the second season, video duels are added which show videos as clues and audio duels, which are sound focused duels, and use images as hints as well to keep turn order.
The first contestant to run out of time is eliminated from the game and gives up all of their territory to the winner, who inherits the challenger's category or keeps their own (if the challenger). The winner may then either challenge another opponent or return to the grid; in the latter case, a new contestant is selected as a challenger at random from those who have not yet played a duel. Once all the remaining contestants have played a duel at least once, everyone becomes eligible for selection as a challenger. When only two contestants remain, the final duel is played as a best-of-three, with the first contestant to win two rounds declared the champion. Each remaining category is used for one of the first two rounds only.. The contestant holding more territory decides the order of the final two categories. Each player alternates turn order: one goes first in Round 1 and second in Round 2, while the opponent does the opposite. If a third round is required, the contestant holding more territory decides from a list of three mystery categories not revealed until after the first two duels as the tiebreaker and goes first in the tiebreaker round.
Results by contestant
Original categories are listed first & shown in boldface. Inherited categories are listed after the original category without boldface. A hyphen indicates a more specific topic in the associated category. The specific topic is italicized. Parentheses indicate what a category refers to if a colloquial phrase or additional notes about a topic; it also specifies the category's style of play if specified to be non-visual or text-based (audio, association, etc.). [] Brackets indicate the remaining words of a topic that have had their title shortened. A cyan square number means that contestant earned the territory freeze.
Duels
Season 1
Week 1 Part 1: (28 April 2025): Top 81 – 9 Duels
Week 1 Part 2: (29 April 2025): Top 72 - 9 Duels
Week 2 Part 1: (5 May 2025): Top 63 - 9 Duels
Week 2 Part 2: (6 May 2025): Top 54 - 9 Duels
Week 3 Part 1: (12 May 2025): Top 45 - 9 Duels
Week 3 Part 2: (13 May 2025): Top 36 - 9 Duels
Week 4 Part 1: (19 May 2025): Top 27 - 9 Duels
Week 4 Part 2: (20 May 2025): Top 18 - 9 Duels
Week 5: (26 May 2025): Top 9 - 10 Duels
Season 2
Week 1 Part 1 (April 19, 2026): Top 81 – 8 Duels
Week 1 Part 2 (April 20, 2026): Top 73 – 9 Duels
Week 2 Part 1 (April 26, 2026): Top 64 – 8 Duels
Week 2 Part 2 (April 27, 2026): Top 56 – 8 Duels
Week 3 Part 1 (May 3, 2026): Top 48 – 8 Duels
Week 3 Part 2 (May 4, 2026): Top 40 – 8 Duels
Week 4 Part 1 (May 10, 2026): Top 32 – 8 Duels
Because every player decided to return to the floor, Rodger increased the weekly prize to $20,000.
Week 4 Part 2 (May 11, 2026): Top 24 – 8 Duels
Week 5 Part 1 (May 17, 2026): Top 16 – 8 Duels
Week 5 Part 2 (May 18, 2026): Top 8 – 8 Duels
Episodes
Season 1 (2025)
Winners of individual duels are shown in boldface shown as Challenger (randomized or choosing to play on)/Defender (chosen by challenger). Time boosts earned in Italics. Time boosts used shown in Underline.
Season 2 (2026)
Winners of individual duels are shown in boldface shown as Challenger (randomized or choosing to play on)/Defender (chosen by challenger). Time boosts earned in Italics. Time boosts used shown in Underline.
Reception
Ratings
The Floor's season 1 premiere ended up garnering over 2.2 million viewers, a success for the network, making it the highest rating new series launch in VOZ history.The show averaged 1.3 million viewers across broadcast and streaming over its 9 episodes. The finale episode beat out every other non-news program.