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

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 (TV series), starring Vanessa Morgan and Giacomo Gianniotti
"Wild Cards", an episode of Justice League
"Wild Cards", an episode of The King of Queens

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