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

• 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

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, the sequel to Warcross by Marie Lu

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 (TV series), a 2024 Canadian/American police procedural TV series
• "Wild Cards", an episode of Justice League
• "Wild Cards", an episode of The King of Queens

Music

• Wildcard, imprint of Polydor Records
• The Wild Card, a 2020 album by Ledisip
• Wild Card (ReVamp album), 2013
• Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), 2005
• Wild Card (The Warratahs album), 1990
• Wildcard (Terence Trent D'Arby album), 2001
• Wildcard (Miranda Lambert album), 2019
• Wildcard, an album by Ridley Bent 2014
• Wildcard (EP), a 1989 EP by Pennywise
• Wildcard / A Word from the Wise, compilation album by Pennywise
• "Wildcard", song by Kshmr
• "Wild Card", a 2014 song by Hunter Hayes from Storyline

Other uses

• 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
• Wild Card Football, a 2023 arcade-style football video game by Saber Interactive

See also

• Wild Cardz, a manga series and anime
• Wild Card Game and Wild Card Series, used in the Major League Baseball postseason since 2012
• Wyldcard, American musician
• All pages with titles beginning with Wild card
• All pages with titles containing Wild card