Wild card

Wild card most commonly refers to:

Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play

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

Computing[edit]

Matching wildcards or globbing, an algorithm for comparing text with wildcard characters
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 mask, a netmask that swaps 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 compared to the normal netmask
Wildcard certificate, a public key certificate used to secure multiple subdomains
Wildcard (Java), a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in the Java programming language
Studio Wildcard, an American video game developer best known for Ark: Survival Evolved

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, the sequel to Warcross by Marie Lu

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
Wild Cards, a Canadian TV series starring Vanessa Morgan and Giacomo Gianniotti

Wild Card (lottery), a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Wild card (foresight), low-probability, high-impact events
Wild Card, the antagonist of NFL Rush Zone season 2
Wild Card (video game), a 2001 role-playing video game