Wild card
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The term wild card was originally used in card games, but the term has evolved to describe what the Merriam-Webster Dictionary calls "an unknown or unpredictable factor" in any number of domains.
- WILD Card (South African national parks) - a smartcard-based annual season ticket to Southern African national parks
- Wild card - a playing card that represents any one of a set in a card game (such as UNO)
- wild card (sports) - a team that qualifies for championship playoffs without winning their specific subdivision
- Wild Cards (band) - a fairly popular Northern Georgia punk rock & roll band (formerly The Corporate Slaves)
- wild card (Foresight research) - low-probability, high-impact events
- Wild Cards - a series of books
- Wild Card - a 2005 album performed by The Rippingtons
- wildcard character - a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions
- wildcard DNS record - a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names
- Wildcards - a nickname of the most prominent starfighter squadron in Space: Above and Beyond
