Families and caskets (2)
The Bellini and Cellini casket-making families (Bellini, Cellini, and their respective sons) made many pairs of caskets. All Bellinis inscribed true statements on caskets they made, and all Cellinis inscribed false statements.
You come across a pair that have the following inscriptions:
Casket A: "None of the sons were involved in the making of these two caskets."
Casket B: Both these caskets were fashioned by the Cellini family."
Who made each casket?
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1 solution
The statement on casket B cannot be true, because otherwise both caskets WOULD be fashioned by the Cellini family, and we'd have a Cellini-made casket with a true statement. So the statement on B is false, and therefore casket B was made by the Cellini family.
Casket A, therefore, was made by the Bellini family and the statement on it is true. So, none of the sons were involved. Therefore, A must have been made by Bellini and B by Cellini.