The BEST episodes of Floor Is Lava

Every episode of Floor Is Lava ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Floor Is Lava!

Teams compete to navigate rooms flooded with lava by leaping from chairs, hanging from curtains and swinging from chandeliers. Yes, really.

Last Updated: 6/23/2025Network: NetflixStatus: Ended

7.18

44 votes

#1 - Ballers, Ballerinas and Black Belts

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/3/2022

A giant game room — flooded with a zillion gallons of lava, of course — challenges the guts and grit of kickballers, ballerinas and black belts.

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7.15

34 votes

#2 - Once Upon a Volcano

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/3/2022

A kid's room provides the setting, but that doesn't mean this lava-filled course is child's play. Three teams will enter. Only one will prevail.

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7.15

55 votes

#3 - The Study: Level 2

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/19/2020

In the season finale, host Rutledge Wood welcomes three new teams — including a trio of social media mavens — to the hottest party in town.

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7.01

107 votes

#4 - The Bedroom: Level 1

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2020

In this episode, teachers, tennis pals and proud papas take leaps of faith across a magma-filled obstacle course designed to look like a bedroom.

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7.00

40 votes

#5 - Hotter than Lava

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/3/2022

What's scarier than being unfollowed on Instagram? Nothing! But for these Netflix reality stars, falling into a pit of lava may be a close second.

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6.97

59 votes

#6 - The Basement: Level 2

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/19/2020

Things bottom out on the basement level when a team of brawny bros takes on a trio of co-workers who met on the job.

6.97

88 votes

#7 - The Kitchen: Level 1

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2020

We need a giant stick of mozzarella stat! Doctors, nurses and party animals do culinary calisthenics in a kitchen like no other.

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6.96

28 votes

#8 - Cruisers, Bakers and Bubble Makers

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2022

A creepy attic threatens to swallow up this episode's three lava-traversing teams. Can the Cruise Crew, Team Bakers and the Mermaids handle the heat?

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6.94

48 votes

#9 - Return of the Virzi Triplets

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2022

The brotastic triplets from Season 1 return to conquer a new course. Also playing with fire this episode: a trio of dads and three comedians.

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6.88

52 votes

#10 - The Bedroom: Level 2

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/19/2020

There's no rest for the wicked as three tenacious teams of two compete to survive a perilous journey across a booby-trapped and lava-filled bedroom.

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6.86

35 votes

#11 - Child's Play

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/2022

A team of improv teachers, a trio of best friends, and three roommates put their skills to the test in the hope of scoring the $10,000 prize.

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6.82

94 votes

#12 - The Planetarium: Level 1

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/19/2020

Three teams — the Mama's Boys, Triple Threat and the Edutainers — enter a lava-swept planetarium. Only one will emerge the victor.

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6.79

61 votes

#13 - The Planetarium: Level 2

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2020

A fresh crop of victims, er, players take on the planetarium level, where the Earth really is flat and giant red buttons are sometimes best avoided.

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6.78

74 votes

#14 - The Study: Level 1

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2020

Flight attendants, fiancés and fierce ladies leap across couches, swing from cargo nets and find time to contemplate an abominable yeti.

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6.75

28 votes

#15 - Putting the Lava in Check

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/2022

A chess-loving trio, a team of swing-dancing hipsters and three aspiring Marine Corps officers compete for sweet victory in a garage most slippery.

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6.71

28 votes

#16 - Best Frenemies

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2022

Three fitness fanatics put their pecs through their paces in a lava-filled kid's room. Also competing: three smoldering actors and a trio of wrestlers.

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6.71

41 votes

#17 - Moms vs Dads

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/3/2022

The place: a haunted attic. The players: fearless moms and dads. The prognosis: magma mixed with a morbid side of mayhem.

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6.61

38 votes

#18 - All Fun and Games

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2022

The Family Campers, Good Genes and the Analysts compete to cross the lava-filled game room. Up for grabs: $10,000 and a coveted "Floor Is Lava" lamp.

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6.53

68 votes

#19 - The Kitchen: Level 2

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2020

Two teams of lava-leaping maniacs go head-to-head in the kitchen, where one false move can send even the fiercest competitor to an unpleasant exit.

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6.51

144 votes

#20 - The Basement: Level 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/2020

A mom and her college-bound twins, three pastors and identical triplets use a mummy, an ark and assorted antiquities to traverse a flooded basement.