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

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Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or card:

    A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party—any party at all—until it is all over and the lights are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I’ll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)