It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I wonder if grue was taken from Nelson Goodman's Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction

	▲	redundantly 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nyet. Jack Vance created grues in the one of the Dying Earth series books.
	▲	MarkusQ 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. Because it is pitch black and therefore you can not determine it's color (plus, the fact that you haven't been eaten by one yet does not justify the conclusion that you won't be). It's also a play on Gardener's "unexpected hanging paradox".

vunderba 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love it. I use a grue reference on 404s to my blog.

If this predicament seems particularly cruel, consider whose fault it could be: not a torch or a match in your inventory.

MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark

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