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 (linguistics), broad letters or symbols used to cover classes of sounds
  • 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 Series, previously Wild Card Games, used in the Major League Baseball postseason since 2012
  • Wyldcard, American musician