You encounter an ancient Italian manuscript. Your hired historians discover that it is a list of sentences written by the Bellini and Cellini patriarchs. Just like with their caskets, Bellini writes only true sentences and Cellini writes only false ones.
Translated into English, the document reads as follows:
(1) None of these sentences was written by Cellini.
(2) One of these sentences was written by Cellini.
(3) Two of these sentences were written by Cellini.
(4) Three of these sentences were written by Cellini.
(5) Exactly one of these sentences was written by Bellini.
Your experts clearly detect two styles of handwriting, and tell you that is an absolute fact that both Bellini and Cellini wrote at least one sentence.
How many of the sentences were written by Cellini?
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
Statements 1,2,3, and 4 contradict with one another. And statement 5, is the only unique one.
Let's start there. If Cellini wrote sentence 5, that would mean, Bellini wrote 2,3, or 4 of the sentences. But, Bellini tells the truth, he wouldn't be writing contradictory statements.
Hence, we know, Bellini wrote sentence 5. Which means, sentence 5 is true.
Which means that only one of the 5, were written by Bellini, which is sentence 5. Cellini wrote all 4.