Wild card

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Wild card may refer to:

Wild card (card games), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
Wild card (foresight), low-probability, high-impact events

Computing

Wildcard character, a character that substitutes for any other character or character range in regular expressions and globbing
Wildcard DNS record, a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names
Wildcard netmask, a netmask that swapping 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 from the normal netmask
Wildcard certificate, a public key certificate with which you can secure multiple subdomains
Wildcard (Java), a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in Java

Wildcard (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Wild Card 2, a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Wild Cards, a series of science fiction/superhero books
- Wild Cards (anthology), the first book in the series
Wild Card (TV series), a.k.a. Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, a Canadian TV series starring Joely Fisher
Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), a 2005 album by The Rippingtons
Wildcards, a nickname of the most prominent starfighter squadron in Space: Above and Beyond
A Justice League episode named "Wild Cards"
Wild Card Stack, a programming block on the Toon Disney TV channel
Wildcard (Pennywise EP), a 1989 EP by Pennywise
Wild Card (The Warratahs album), 1990
Wildcard (album), a 2001 album by Terence Trent D'Arby
Wildcard (comics), a fictional Marvel character
Wild Card (ReVamp album), a 2013 album by ReVamp
Wild Card (2003 film), a 2003 South Korean action film
Wild Card (2015 film), an American crime drama film