Baccara, auch Baccarat oder Bakkarat, ist ein Karten-Glücksspiel.   Das Spiel soll häufigen Behauptungen zufolge in Neapel im 16. Jahrhundert erfunden worden sein und der Name seinen Ursprung in einem neapolitanischen Dialekt haben, in dem Baccara Null bedeutet. Möglicherweise leitet sich der Name des Spiels auch von der nahe Lunéville gelegenen Stadt Baccarat ab. Trotz dieser Behauptungen bezüglich des hohen Alters, wie man sie auch oft in Spielbeschreibungen von Kasinos liest, ist – entsprechend den Forschungen von David Parlett – Baccara wahrscheinlich wesentlich jünger und erst zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts entstanden. [en] The first things you see in the game space are: a cigarette, a golden wristwatch and a necktie. All these items belong to a powerful man who often visits this place. As many people of this sort he came to his power not very honestly. During his lifetime he did many awful deeds. In his childhood he tortured animals, being a teenager he was a drug pusher and a head of a gang. When the man became an adult, he started to distribute unlawful arms and to torture people with the aim to enrich at their expense. He had everything he wanted: money and power; but at the end of his life he felt he had no feelings, no love and no man to trust. That time the thoughts about this dreadful life began disturb him so he came to that place to play cards and to divert.