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", 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

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