Baba Is You
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40 free Baba is You trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game in which the rules are objects. Every law of a stage is spelled out in blocks of text lying on the ground, and moving one block aside can rewrite what is solid, what is dangerous and what counts as victory. That one idea carried a game-jam demo to some of the biggest design prizes in the industry. This quiz covers the vocabulary first: the property words, the verbs and conditions, the objects they are usually attached to, and the strange things that happen when sentences cross or contradict each other. It also asks about the developer, the tools and the jam that produced the game, and the updates that followed its release. It is written for players who have finished the opening areas and want to check how well they really know the words, and for anyone curious about how a game this odd came to exist.
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Q 01In Baba Is You, what does the property YOU do to an object?
Lets the player steer it
Lets the player steer it: every object that is YOU answers the controls at once, so a rule like WALL IS YOU sets the whole maze walking.
Q 02In Baba Is You, which object is most often paired with WIN, including in the game's very first level?
Flag
Flag is only the usual goal: slide the word WIN beside another noun and that object finishes the level instead.
Q 03In Baba Is You, what can Baba do to walls once WALL IS STOP is broken?
Walk straight through them
Walk straight through them: objects carry no built-in behaviour in this game, so a wall without STOP is only scenery.
Q 04Arvi Teikari, the developer who created Baba Is You, comes from which European country?
Finland
Finland is home to Arvi Teikari, who was still a University of Helsinki student when he built the first demo at a game jam.
Q 05Baba Is You launched in March 2019 on PC and which games console?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch owners saw it coming: Nintendo featured the puzzler in an indie games showcase in August 2018, months before release.
Q 06In Baba Is You, the title character Baba is a small four-legged creature of which colour?
White
White with two ears and black eyes, Baba is never given a species, and it is the object found in the largest number of levels.
Q 07In Baba Is You, which property is usually given to water, destroying it along with whatever enters it?
SINK
SINK removes both objects at once, which is why pushing a rock into water leaves a dry gap that Baba can cross.
Q 08In Baba Is You, word tiles form a rule when read left to right or in which other direction?
Top to bottom
Top to bottom is the only other valid reading, so a single IS tile can sit in the middle of two crossing rules at once.
Q 09In Baba Is You, what happens when the rules BABA IS YOU and BABA IS WIN are both active?
The level is completed
The level is completed at once: the object that must reach the goal is the goal, so it counts as already there.
Q 10Many Baba Is You levels use the box-pushing style of which Japanese warehouse game from the early 1980s?
Sokoban
Sokoban, whose name means warehouse keeper, was created by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1981 as a hobby project for the NEC PC-8001.
Q 11Arvi Teikari, the creator of Baba Is You, releases his games under which professional name?
Hempuli
Hempuli is the handle on everything he makes, and he composed the soundtrack of this game himself as well as writing the code.
Q 12Baba Is You began as a short demo that took first place at which 2017 competition for developers?
Nordic Game Jam
Nordic Game Jam, held each year in Copenhagen, is one of the world's largest jams, and the demo built there grew into the full release two years later.
Q 13Which theme, set for the 2017 game jam where Baba Is You was first built, sparked its logic-word idea?
Not There
Not There made Arvi Teikari think of logic operators, the idea that led to a game about pushing words like NOT around.
Q 21In Baba Is You, which property, often found on skulls, destroys any object that is YOU on contact?
DEFEAT
DEFEAT even beats victory: if one object is both DEFEAT and WIN, the player's character is destroyed before the level can be completed.
Q 22In Baba Is You, which property is usually given to lava so that it destroys anything that is MELT?
HOT
HOT cuts both ways: an object that is HOT and MELT at the same time destroys itself, so one extra word can wipe out a whole lava field.
Q 23In Baba Is You, a key that is OPEN vanishes together with a door carrying which matching property?
SHUT
SHUT and OPEN cancel each other whichever object carries them, so a door made OPEN can be pushed into a SHUT key just as well.
Q 14Arvi Teikari's first idea for Baba Is You was a rule protecting which object from lava beside it?
Ice
Ice was the picture: a frozen block untouched by lava because the words ICE IS NOT MELT sat beside it, the image that became the whole game.
Q 15Arvi Teikari built Baba Is You, like his earlier projects, in which game-making tool extended with Lua scripts?
Multimedia Fusion 2
Multimedia Fusion 2 comes from Clickteam, and Teikari credited a friend, Lukas Meller, for help with the Lua side of the code.
Q 16Arvi Teikari named Baba in Baba Is You after a psychology effect in which people match invented words to what?
Round and spiky shapes
Round and spiky shapes: in the bouba/kiki effect, most people give the softer-sounding invented word to the rounded blob.
Q 17Before its full release, Baba Is You took Best Student Game and Excellence in Design at which 2018 awards?
Independent Games Festival
Independent Games Festival judges also shortlisted the unfinished game for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, the top award of the night.
Q 18Which feature, complete with online sharing, did the free Baba Is You update of November 2021 add?
A level editor
A level editor arrived in an update titled Baba Make Level, alongside two new packs of official puzzles.
Q 19Before Baba Is You, Arvi Teikari made which 2015 Metroidvania about a robot sent to an abandoned bio-dome?
Environmental Station Alpha
Environmental Station Alpha locks its areas behind upgrades such as a grappling hook and a double jump, in classic backtracking style.
Q 20Which roguelike, where every pixel is physically simulated, did Baba Is You's creator help make at Nolla Games?
Noita
Noita, whose title is a word for witch, came from a studio Arvi Teikari formed with the makers of Crayon Physics Deluxe and The Swapper.
Q 24In Baba Is You, which property makes an object bob gently and ignore hazards that lack the same property?
FLOAT
FLOAT is often placed on the text itself, so that a puzzle's key words cannot be drowned or destroyed by accident.
Q 25In Baba Is You, which property sends anything that lands on it to another object of the same kind elsewhere?
TELE
TELE objects work as linked pads, and anything riding them can make the jump only once per turn.
Q 26In Baba Is You, which property lets the object carrying it move into a wall that is still STOP?
SWAP
SWAP ignores solidity entirely, so an object carrying it can change places with a wall that would otherwise block the way.
Q 27In Baba Is You, which property makes an object spread copies of itself into the four tiles beside it every turn?
MORE
MORE growth is held back only by solid objects, so an unblocked patch of it soon floods the whole level.
Q 28In Baba Is You, which property stops Baba answering the controls yet still lets other objects push it around?
SLEEP
SLEEP is shown by a trail of Z symbols, and Baba, like many creatures in the game, gets its own dozing animation.
Q 29In Baba Is You, which property do conveyor belts usually carry, moving whatever stands on them one way?
SHIFT
SHIFT stacks, so a belt that is SHIFT twice carries its cargo two tiles a turn instead of one.
Q 30In Baba Is You, which property drops an object straight down until it lands on something solid?
FALL
FALL happens instantly rather than one tile per turn, and the New Adventures pack added versions that drop objects up, left and right.