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:
“The poets, commonly, is not a loggers path, but a woodmans. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The Card Catalogue: See also leads into the wilderness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)