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Over the years, we have seen the sets for TV game shows become more automated. The availability of smart walls, and now floors, has changed the genre. This game show uses a 9X9 grid to create 81 spaces on the floor, each occupied by a contestant. Players randomly selected, get to challenge adjoining players. The concept of 81 players battling for a grand prize of $250,000 is appealing. Each player has a category of expertise, and when you challenge someone, you must play in their category.

A challenge consists of a head-to-head matchup, but players play against the clock. Each gets 45 seconds of time, and they take turns trying to identify items that flash on a screen. If your clock runs down first, you lose and the conqueror gets your space on the floor.

Besides the big prize going to the person who wins the 80th match, $20,000 is awarded to the player who occupies the most space on the floor at the end of each episode.

There are various strategies at play. Do you challenge someone in their category of expertise or wait for someone to challenge you? If you challenge someone and win, you assume their category. Do you like that category? If you challenge someone, your clock begins counting down first. Do you want to lay low and use the time between episodes to bone up on your new category?

In the first two episodes, they played 7 or 8 matches and the choices became more complex as the game went on. As for the matchups, they are entertaining.

I absolutely love the concept. Yes, Rob Lowe may be phoning it in, but he's still better than most modern hosts (except Higgins). People complain about the pace, but I think it's perfect. Great balance of down time to game time. I hate too much interview time for contestants, but this show doesn't do that.

I agree about the "Randomizer" not being as random as they try to portray, but that's what you should expect. All entertainment has a goal to entertain. Not mad about that.

When it comes to game shows, I care about a fun watch that I can engage in. That's this show. Can't wait for the next episode.

Wow! What a great new show which commences with having.a welcomed 81 contestants stand on a floor grid with each contestant owning their specific category which varies from bugs, to cereals, to technology categories and anything else that can be categorized which is basically unlimited.

The Floor which uses two contestants to battle against each other with one contestant winning their opponents share of the grid floor. Strategically the viewing audience can witness how one or more contestants may become vulnerable as grid spaces are won or lost and the contestant who wins the most grid spaces during the weekly game also wins a $20,000.00 prize with the last (wo)man standing winning the Grand prize of $250,000.00.

Mathematically speaking we can see that the weekly prize value of $20,000.00 and the Grand prize value of $250,000.00 which will take several weeks to eventually be awarded indicates that this game show is not about the producers giving away millions of dollars or neither cars or luxury vacations. No, this game show is more about a competitive game show where the audience can play along guessing as the two contestants battle each other to win the other contestants grid(s) that they currently own. The two battling contestants start off with a thirty (30) second clock which only descends with a wrong answer, and a three (3) second penalty if a contestant passes on a clue. The contestant whose clock goes from 30 to 0 seconds first loses their match and sent packing home.

If you win you continue, and if you lose you go home. The host is well known film and Tv personality. Rob Lowe who takes a backstage to the contestants whose backgrounds are as diverse as the catgories they are competing for. This game is like Jeopardy with its categories but on steroids since Jeopardy has three (3) contestants and The Floor commences each new game with eighty one (81) contestants.

I give this new and exciting game show a perfect 10 IMDb rating and it's been a long time since.a successful game show such as Jeopardy, Let's Make a Deal, and/or. The Price Is Right came along.

If you are looking for a new game show to watch, you might want to check out The Floor on Fox. The show, hosted by the charming Rob Lowe, is a clever and exciting competition that tests the contestants' knowledge and strategy on a variety of topics. The show's format is simple but effective: each contestant claims expertise in a certain topic, such as "Dogs," "80s TV," or "Nepo Babies." They then face off in duels, where they have to identify items from images or fill in the blanks. The catch is that they only have 45 seconds on their clock, and the only way to stop it is to answer correctly. The winner of the duel takes over the loser's space on the floor, a 9x9 grid where they stand. The goal is to expand their territory and eliminate their opponents. The last contestant standing wins $250,000, and the contestant with the most squares at the end of each episode wins $20,000.

The Floor is a game show that keeps you on the edge of your seat, as you watch the contestants try to outsmart and outguess each other. The duels are fast and fun, with clues ranging from easy to hard, and topics from obscure to popular. The show also adds some elements of reality TV, as the contestants interact with each other and reveal their personalities and strategies in side interviews. The host, Rob Lowe, adds some humor and charisma to the show, as he comments on the duels and chats with the contestants.

The Floor is a game show that is both entertaining and educational, as you learn new facts and trivia along the way. It is also a game show that is different from the typical ones, as it uses visual clues and a unique scoring system. The Floor is a game show that is worth watching, as it offers a fresh and fun twist to the genre.

Waited to make a review till the season was fully complete and man it did not disappoint! A fun concept with everyone having a topic they know best in and battling it out with others and their expert topic is a fun and refreshing new concept!

It's also really intriguing the contestants take the others topic if they beat them as well making it difficult or similar advantage in their favor!

The contestants they had were all great and different and added to the excitement that this show had

I wasn't a fan of the winner of season 1 but it doesn't take away to such a fun show and something reality TV/Game shows have been desperately needing.

The game play itself seems very interesting and different from most other game shows.

However, the format of the show was mind-numbingly long and drawn out. As typical for most shows nowadays, they inserted too much dialogue in between the question rounds along with unnecessary sound effects and graphics. I franky got bored. Thankfully I recorded it, so I could just fast forward through all the ridiculous drivel.

If they want people to stay tuned, they need to replace all the manufactured drama filler content with many more rounds of questions per hour, it would make it so much more enjoyable to watch.

I get the lights and the fun every day people playing. Not sure why we need to know the inside scoop on every player, especially the ones that lose right away. How hard would it be to move this faster and have a couple more rounds of players actually playing the game? Is it really that hard to come up with questions for this 'game'?

The premise is solid, the execution is mush. Advertisements and deep dives into people we really have no want or need to know about completely ruin what could have been a fun time for all.

I had a conversation with my wife about this show before she had seen an episode and I asked her to watch episode one and tell me what her grade would be. Her first sentence was, "When they finally played the game, I was in the other room doing something else."

The season begins decent with random people being called upon and the players having the ability to continue playing or go back to the floor. But once you get a few shows in you will realize that the entire game is flawed by design. Here are the reasons why:

The Randomizer: it picks random people, but never chooses a person twice. This gives the players along the edges and in the corners the biggest advantage because the chances of them being chosen to play are minimized. You will realize this by the time you get to the last episode as one of the contestants in the corner is chosen to go into the final round, yet she only played ONE TIME before. And there are many players that made it to the end of the season having never played a single game, yet people who played and won some 10+ games are eliminated.

Gameplay (answer correctly or pass): If a person answers the question correctly then it is the other player's turn. But if they can't answer they will pass, lose 3 seconds, and have to answer before it is their opponent's turn. Because of this, most of the winners win because their opponents couldn't answer the questions and passed too much. So it is not a game by which the player who answers the most questions or knows the most trivia will win, but a game by which the person who passes the most loses. And the person who is never called upon by the Randomizer has the biggest advantage.

The clues: Who picks the order for clues? Because it is not random. The first few clues are always the most obvious, but the clues do not become progressively harder. Randomly at times a player will receive a very hard clue, pass, receive another very hard clue, answer it, then their opponent receives an easy clue... which leads me to --

Rigging: it seems rigged. When you watch a player pass 4 times on very hard clues, only for their opponent to receive easy clues every time, it is hard to believe that the questions are completely random. Not to mention, the players were not sequestered from each other or from the internet, so they were able to fraternize and study their topic each evening. This gave the players in the latter of the season more of an advantage, and even set the stage for the possibility that some players worked together to give a specific player more of a winning chance than others. If you watch the whole season you will be left wondering why a person holding a very large portion of the floor purposely chose a topic that they knew absolutely nothing about, against an opponent that very clearly knew something about the topic, and then passed over and over until they lost, giving their opponent the win with almost zero effort

Each episode the person with the most pieces of the floor wins $20k, and the person who wins at the end takes home an additional $250k. But the last two episodes were strung together as a "season finale" instead of being two individual episodes. This seriously makes me feel like they lost so many viewers towards the end they were not able to afford to give $20k to the winner of the 2nd to the last show.

Don't read this any further if you intend on watching the entire season --- Throughout the season there are multiple players that work very hard to progress... they don't pass, they play and win huge chunks of the floor. Then they lose to a person who played just one single game. This happens a lot towards the end of the season, with the final winner being a contestant that was situated in the corner and only played one time prior. This is so flawed... she didn't deserve to win, and in all honesty it looks like she was given the win, as her opponent just stopped answering questions and passed on everything after choosing a category that he knew nothing about.

The thing I complained about the most while watching the show was the narcissistic attitudes of majority of the women on the floor. They walked and talked with ridiculous levels of arrogance. One woman dressed and acted like she was a teenager. While a grandmother even said "am I hot?" right before the game began, thinking that she would distract her opponent. All of that arrogance was a huge distraction from the gameplay.

We watched all of the season, but decided we would not watch a 2nd season if it is made. Though I highly doubt it will be made because it seems like the producers ran out of money before the 1st season concluded.

It's absolutely infuriating that when someone doesn't know an answer, the other person doesn't have to answer it. This is a tragic flaw. It essentially turns each showdown into a coin toss. The clues start very obvious, quickly turn obscure, and then flip back to obvious. Whoever happens to be unfortunate enough to get stuck with the first obscure clue loses several seconds by stumbling or passing and then it's over. That few seconds is all it takes to lose and they can get stuck in an endless loop of unknown clues until their time runs out and their opponent wins without having to answer anything.

This flaw makes the entire premise of the show pointless. They might as well just get up there, flip a coin, and whoever gets tails loses because how much you know means absolutely nothing. Nobody wins by answering more clues. They all win by default when their opponent can't answer or stumbles on a clue that they themselves don't have to answer. This would be fixed by simply having a contestant pass the question to the other contestant and having them stumble on it as well and then they're both even for both not knowing it. But nope, only one person gets punished.

This makes me really suspect the entire thing is rigged. They purposely throw in an obscure clue to the person they want to lose and by design it cannot be passed and hurt the chosen winner. There's no way anyone designed and implemented this game without realizing what's happening. This has to be purposely done to give guaranteed control of the outcomes. So it's either rigged or a coin toss. No knowledge required either way.

It was a good concept, but really poorly executed. It seems unfair how the categories are shown and sometimes predictable what contestants are actually guessing. Some categories are super easy while others were ridiculously hard. Winning is basically determined on how quickly contestants answer and how quick they are on the behind-the-scenes to show the next photo. Boring to watch, I watched a couple of the first episodes, and then the last. It seems like they didn't do enough prep work to make this a functional show and put it to the test before airing. There are much better contestant shows out there.

Rob Lowe is an interesting choice for host. It appears he was selected at the last minute and had no time to shave nor comb his hair. That's only the start of improvements that could be made should there be another season. It's hard to tell which contestant is answering questions as they are filmed from the side and at a distance. It also appears the time counter is still reducing while waiting for the next photo/illustration to appear. The scoring system needs more than a countdown - how about getting time back when the opponent passes and you answer correctly? Overall, it was kind of fun to watch the braggarts fail miserably being unable to succeed in their own area of "expertise".