Like everything that has appeared long ago, the baccarat card game is associated with ambiguous historical facts that often contradict each other⚔️ But this does not make the game less interesting for the players.

💡Several European countries claim to be the progenitor of the baccarat game. So, the theories of the origin of the game are the following:

1 - French "railway"

The French say that the game originated in the province of Lorraine, in a town of Bakkarat.
Today the city is rather famous for the production of high quality crystal rather than card games.

In France, baccarat is called “Chemin de Fer” (“railway”) 🛤 In the Middle Ages, there were no railways, and the name appeared much later, when the game "Chemin de Fer" became the main entertainment of French nobles who travelled by train across Europe.

2 - Spanish "bank"

The mention of baccarat in Spain dates back to the 15th century. It was called "Punto Banko". The Spaniards claim that Punto Banco originated from the ancient Chinese game Pai Gou.

👉The game is played by 2 people: a player and a banker. The author of the rules is unknown. A simplified version of Punto Banko is nowadays the most common baccarat variety.

3 - Scary Italian "zero"

The most famous version of the appearance of the game is associated with the name of Felix Falguere Faljieri. Felix took an ancient Etruscan ritual as the basis for the game.

®️At that time, people who lived in the Apennine Peninsula worshiped 9 gods. When in a tribe there were a certain number of young girls, their fate was determined in an unusual way.

Each girl threw a 9-sided die🎲 The dropped figures indicated the number of gods who displayed favor to her:

➖ 8 or 9 - the girl became a priestess;
➖ 6 or 7 - a young virgin was destined for the life of an ordinary woman;
➖ 5 and less – following a cruel ritual she was thrown into the sea.

Falguere was impressed by this ritual and realized it in his game, where Tarot cards were first used.

By the way, baccarat is Italian for “zero”0️⃣ The Etruscan gods definitely did not favor this game.

Where else?

As it spread throughout the world, the game acquired new rules and features. In Asia, the variety of baccarat was called "macao", in England - "nine", etc.

Today the game is very popular in the online segment🖥

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