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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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The winner of the trick is the last person who played a card of the same rank as the original lead or a wild card.
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.
Also, remember that, by rule, a wild card can't play a team from its division in the first round.
It remains the wild card in an economic game that is still too close to call.
The Reds were four games out of the wild card race with 23 games remaining.
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.

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