Wild card most commonly refers to: *

Wild card (cards) A wild card in card games is one that may be used to represent any other playing card, sometimes with certain restrictions. These may be jokers, for example in Rummy games, or ordinary ranked and suited cards may be designated as wild cards such ...

, a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games *

Wild card (sports) A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winnin ...

, 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 In computer science, an algorithm for matching wildcards (also known as globbing) is useful in comparing text strings that may contain wildcard syntax. Common uses of these algorithms include command-line interfaces, e.g. the Bourne shell or Micro ...

or globbing, an algorithm for comparing text with wildcard characters *

Wildcard character In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk (), which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string. It is often used in file searches so the full na ...

, a character that substitutes for any other character or character range in regular expressions and globbing *

Wildcard DNS record A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a * as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wil ...

, a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names *

Wildcard mask A wildcard mask is a mask of bits that indicates which parts of an IP address are available for examination. In the Cisco IOS,

, a netmask that swaps 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 compared to the normal netmask *

Wildcard certificate In computer networking, a wildcard certificate is a public key certificate which can be used with multiple subdomain, sub-domains of a domain. The principal use is for securing web sites with HTTPS, but there are also applications in many other ...

, a public key certificate used to secure multiple subdomains *

Wildcard (Java) In the Java programming language, the wildcard ? is a special kind of type argument that controls the type safety of the use of generic (parameterized) types. It can be used in variable declarations and instantiations as well as in method definitio ...

, a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in the Java programming language *

Studio Wildcard Wildcard Properties, LLC (trade name: Studio Wildcard) is an American video game developer with offices in Redmond, Washington, and Gainesville, Florida. The company was founded in October 2014 by Doug Kennedy, Jesse Rapczak, Jeremy Stieglit ...

, an American video game developer best known for ''Ark: Survival Evolved''

Books

* ''

Wild Cards ''Wild Cards'' is a series of science fiction superhero shared universe anthologies, mosaic novels, and solo novels. They are written by a collection of more than forty authors (referred to as the "Wild Cards Trust") and are edited by George R. ...

'', 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 ''Warcross'' is a young adult science fiction novel by Marie Lu, which was published on September 17, 2017 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. ''Warcross'' is the first book in the duology of the same name. The second, ''Wildcard'', was released September 18, ...

'' 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 The Justice League (also known as The Justice League of America) are a team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The team first appeared in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #28 (March 1960). The team was conceived ...

'' * "Wild Cards", an episode of ''

The King of Queens ''The King of Queens'' is an American television sitcom that ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes. The series was created by Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt, who also served as the show ...

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

Music

* Wildcard, imprint of

Polydor Records Polydor Records Ltd. is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group. It has a close relationship with Universal's Interscope Geffen A&M Records label, which distributes Polydor's releases in the United States. ...

* '' 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 Ridley Bent is the stage name of Brian Fowler, a Canadian country music, country singer-songwriter. Born in City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bent was raised throughout Canada in a Military of Canada, military family. He formally launched hi ...

2014 * ''Wildcard'' (EP), a 1989 EP by Pennywise * ''

Wildcard / A Word from the Wise Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band took its name from the antagonist in Stephen King's horror novel '' It'' known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Between their 1991 self-titled deb ...

'', compilation album by Pennywise * "Wildcard", song by

Kshmr Niles Hollowell-Dhar (born October 6, 1988), known professionally as Kshmr (pronounced "Kashmir" and stylized in all caps), is an American songwriter, DJ, music producer, and musician. He was ranked 23rd on ''DJ Mag''s 2015 Top 100 DJs poll and ...

* "Wild Card", a 2014 song by Hunter Hayes from '' Storyline''

Other uses

Wild Card (lottery) ''Wild Card'' (for part of its history ''Wild Card 2'') was a lottery game that was available in Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, although at no point did the five lotteries offer it simultaneously. The game was administered ...

, a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota *

Wild card (foresight) In a view of the future, a wild card is a low-probability, high-impact event. This concept may be introduced into anticipatory decision-making activity in order to increase the ability of organizations and governments to adapt to surprises arising ...

, 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

Computing

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