Wild card

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), low-probability, high-impact events
  • Computing

  • 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 netmask, a netmask that swapping 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 from the normal netmask
  • Wildcard certificate, a public key certificate with which you can secure multiple subdomains
  • Wildcard (Java), 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 (lottery), a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota
  • Wild Cards, a series of science fiction/superhero books
  • Black Trump

    For the Cocoa Brovaz song, see The Rude Awakening.

    Black Trump is the 15th volume (dubbed "Book III of a New Cycle") in the Wild Cards shared universe fiction series edited by George R. R. Martin. Published in 1995, it is the final book in the "Card Sharks" cycle, with the completion of the Black Trump virus (fatal to anyone with the Wild Card infection) and its release in the world. Unlike the two previous books, Black Trump was a mosaic novel, much like Jokers Wild and Ace in the Hole.

    Characters

    Black Trump features the following characters as the main focus of the various storylines:

    Card Sharks (anthology)

    Card Sharks is the 13th volume (dubbed "Book I of a New Cycle") in the Wild Cards shared universe fiction series edited by George R. R. Martin. It was published in 1993 and dealt the investigation of a criminal fire at the Jokertown Church, leading to the discovery of a conspiracy of enormous proportions, with the intention of killing every Wild Card on Earth.

    Stories

    Card Sharks contains the following short stories:

    Podcasts:

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