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What is a wild card?

What is a wild card? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
  2. (sports) A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
  3. (computing) a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing
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If your team starts a meld of wild cards, you cannot add any wild cards to any of your other melds until your wild card canasta is complete.
Face cards should probably only be kept if a player is dealt a natural pair, or perhaps an individual wild card with a face card.
A meld containing three natural cards can have any number of wild cards added to it, since the first wild card added makes the meld a canasta.
Even if this team sneaks into the playoffs as a wild card, it clearly is not a playoff-caliber team.
Montgomerie, of course, is no certainty to play in the Ryder Cup, but if he fails to qualify, a wild card will surely be his.
It was subsequently adopted in versions of Poker, Rummy and other games as a wild card which could be used as a substitute for any desired card.

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