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 card, wild and/or card:
“You could see his sunglasses scanning those faces as they passed, and he must have decided that Rikki’s was the one he was waiting for, the wild card and the luck changer. The new one.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“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)
“I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)