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9. In the midst of the crossword craze in 1926, Antal Gyula, a waiter in Budapest, committed suicide, leaving behind a blank crossword puzzle with a note saying, “The solution will give you the exact reasons for my suicide and also the names of the people interested.” Unfortunately, a solution was never found, and the case has been labeled as a sort of an urban myth.