• Wild card (card games), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
• Wild card (sports)
  Wild card (sports)
  The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...
  
  , a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
• Wild card (foresight), low-probability, high-impact events

Computing

• Wildcard character
  Wildcard character
  -Telecommunication:In telecommunications, a wildcard character is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters....
  
  , a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing
• Wildcard DNS record
  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 of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wild card will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the...
  
  , a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names
• Wildcard Netmask, a netmask
  Mask (computing)
  In computer science, a mask is data that is used for bitwise operations.Using a mask, multiple bits in a byte, nibble, word can be set either on, off or inverted from on to off in a single bitwise operation.-Masking bits to 1:...
  
   that swapping 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 from the normal netmask
• Wildcard certificate
  Wildcard certificate
  A wildcard certificate is a public key certificate with which you can secure multiple subdomains.Depending on the number of subdomains an advantage could be that it saves money and also could be more convenient.-Limitation:...
  
  , a public key certificate with which you can secure multiple subdomains
• Wildcard (Java)
  Wildcard (Java)
  The wildcard ? in Java is a special actual parameter for the instantiation of generic types. It can be used for the instantiation, not in the definition of a generic unit...
  
  , a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in Java

Entertainment

• Wildcard (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Wild Card 2
  Wild Card 2
  Wild Card 2 is a lottery game played in four contiguous states in the northern United States It is administered by the Multi-State Lottery Association , which is best known for Powerball...
  
  , a lottery game in the north-central United States; replaced a similar game called "Wild Card"
• Wild Cards
  Wild Cards
  Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...
  
  , a series of science fiction/superhero books
  • Wild Cards (anthology), the first book in the series
• Wild Card (TV series)
  Wild Card (TV series)
  Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.-Synopsis:...
  
  , a.k.a. Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, a Canadian TV series starring Joely Fisher
• Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), a 2005 album by The Rippingtons
• Wildcard (record label), a minor record label now part with Polydor Records
  Polydor Records
  Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
  
  
• Wildcards, a nickname of the most prominent starfighter squadron in Space: Above and Beyond
  Space: Above and Beyond
  Space: Above and Beyond was a short-lived mid-90s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn...
  
  
• A Justice League episode named "Wild Cards"
• Wild Card Stack, a programming block on the Toon Disney
  Toon Disney
  Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company. A spinoff of Disney Channel, it mostly aired children's animated series and some live action programming. Its format had similarities to those of Cartoon Network and Nicktoons...
  
   TV channel
• Wildcard (Pennywise EP)
  Wildcard (Pennywise EP)
  Wildcard is a self-released EP by Pennywise. It was originally released in 1989 as a 7" release and again in 1992, on the compilation album A Word from the Wise/Wildcard, along with the first EP A Word from the Wise.-Track listing:...
  
  , a 1989 EP by Pennywise
• Wild Card (The Warratahs album), 1990
• Wildcard (album)
  Wildcard (album)
  Terence Trent d'Arby's Wildcard!, or simply referred to as Wildcard, is Terence Trent D'Arby's fifth album. It was released in 2001 on his own independent record label Sananda Records following a six year absence from the spotlight....
  
  , a 2001 album by Terence Trent D'Arby
• Wildcard (comics)
  Wildcard (comics)
  Wildcard is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Universe, member of the Strikeforce: Morituri. The character was created by Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson.-Publication history:Wildcard was created by writer Peter B...
  
  , a fictional Marvel character