Wild card

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Wild card commonly refers 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

Wild card or wild cards or Wildcard may also refer to:

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

Books

• Wild Cards, an anthology series of science fiction superhero books
  • Wild Cards, the first installment of Wild Cards books and short stories
• Wildcard (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Wildcard (comics), a fictional Marvel character

Film and Television

• Wild Card (2003 film), a 2003 South Korean action film
• Wild Card (2015 film), an American crime drama film
• Wild Card (TV series), a.k.a. Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, a Canadian TV series starring Joely Fisher
• "Wild Cards", an episode of Justice League
• "Wild Cards", an episode of The King of Queens

Music

• Wildcard, imprint of Polydor Records
• Wildcard Round Canadian Idol (season 2)

Albums

• Wild Card (ReVamp album), a 2013 album by ReVamp
• Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), a 2005 album by The Rippingtons
• Wild Card (The Warratahs album), 1990
• Wildcard (album), a 2001 album by Terence Trent D'Arby
• Wildcard, Ridley Bent 2014
• Wildcard, ReVamp
• Wildcard (Pennywise EP), a 1989 EP by Pennywise
• Wildcard / A Word from the Wise compilation album by Pennywise

Songs

• "Wildcard" song by KSHMR

Other uses

• Wild Card (lottery), a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota

See also

• All pages beginning with "Wild card"
• All pages with a title containing Wild card