On the Subject of Nonbinary Puzzle

If you don’t defuse this bomb your pronouns will be was/were.

• The grid will be filled with squares that can be yellow, white, purple, black, or unfilled (gray).
• The initially-gray squares can be clicked to cycle them through the colors. For the following rules, unfilled is not a color.
• Fill the grid with colors such that:
• 1. No two adjacent squares are the same color.
  2. Every row and column contains at least one of each color.
  3. The total number of yellow and purple squares is equal to the total number of white and black squares.
• There will be 2 displays on the side of the module. The upper display shows the total number of yellow and purple squares, while the lower shows the total number of white and black squares.

Interactive Controls

Use the below interactive graphic to input the read and try out different solutions.

In Read mode, you can press W/K/P/Y on your keyboard, or Space/Enter, or click individual squares to input the puzzle grid. The sound effects can be muted. Press the Manual/Generated button to switch into Generated mode where you can have fun solving generated puzzles just like the module. Use the - and + buttons or press [-] and [+] to increment the size of the generated puzzle. The solution you came up with in Solve mode as well as the solution to generaed puzzles can be shown or hidden. Using the other buttons, you can save the current state of the grid, delete the saves, or reset everything.