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Wild Card Wiki Information
The term wild card
was originally used in card games, but the term has evolved to describe what the Webster's Dictionary
calls "an unknown or unpredictable factor" in any number of domains.
Look up wild card
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wild card
may refer to:
- Wild card (card games) - a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
- wild card (sports) - a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
- wild card (Foresight research) - low-probability, high-impact events
- Wild Card 2, a game offered by the Multi-State Lottery Association played in the north-central United States; replaced a similar game called "Wild Card"
- Wild Card - a card placed on the wheel on the U.S. version of Wheel of Fortune
. A player holding the card, who subsequently lands on a cash space and calls a consonant appearing in the puzzle, may turn it in for the chance to call a second consonant for the same cash value in the same turn, or to gain an extra consonant during the Bonus round puzzle.
- Wildcard - A quarterly(ish) event in Leicester, exhibiting art, performance, film, music and the odd videogame.
- Wild card spot - a semifinals berth given to a Jeopardy!
tournament player who is one of the four high-scoring non-winners in the quarterfinal round.
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In computing
- wildcard character - a character that substitutes for other characters 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 Netmask - a netmask that swapping 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 from the normal netmask.
In arts
- Wild Cards
- a series of science fiction/superhero books
- * Wild Cards (anthology)
- the first book in the series
- Wild Card
(TV series), a.k.a. Zoe Busiek: Wild Card
, a Canadian TV series starring Joely Fisher
- Wild Card
(Rippingtons album) - a 2005 album by The Rippingtons
- Wild Card
- a 2001 video game for the WonderSwan Color
- Wildcard (record label) - a minor record label - now part with Polydor Records
- Wildcards
- a nickname of the most prominent starfighter squadron in Space: Above and Beyond
- "Wild Cards" - an episode of the Justice League
animated series.
- Wild Card Stack - a programming block on the Toon Disney TV channel
- Wild Karrde, a spaceship in the Star Wars scenario
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