Understanding how to play Multi-Match is where the fun begins. The jackpot for a fun in-state game is best explained by John Martin of The Maryland Lottery as 2025 has begun with some big jackpots, new games and local winners.
John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland Lottery, discussed the Multi-Match game, which has a jackpot of $1.6 million. He explained the game’s mechanics, where players select 18 numbers from 1 to 43, with three lines of six numbers each. Martin also highlighted recent lottery winners, including a $60,000 winner in Harford County and a $50,000 winner from a promotion. The conversation also touched on the NFL playoffs, with Nestor Aparicio expressing his excitement about the Ravens’ chances and the potential impact on lottery sales. Martin emphasized responsible gambling and the importance of understanding bets.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Derek Henry, playoff week, Maryland lottery, crab cake tour, pass for cash, Mega Millions, Powerball, Multi-Match, jackpot, lottery winners, Hall of Fame, football playoffs, sports wagering, responsible gambling, food pantries
SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. It is a playoff week around here. I have begun the party by getting the rarest of rare things. I think Derek Henry only wore the Houston Oilers jersey, which those people in Tennessee shouldn’t be wearing this stuff. But I And nonetheless, when I saw this Derek Henry, I thought, I’m ready to run the ball. It’s playoff time. And I thought, You know what? It’s going to be a good time here to have John Martin on executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming. First things, I need to apologize to you and everybody in Harford County because I didn’t get up there on Tuesday. The snow came and fell. The schools were closed that we we lost guests and electeds and all sorts of stuff. We’re gonna get the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by the Maryland lottery. Still have my Raven scratch off here, because I haven’t got down to get the magic eight balls because of the snow, and I still have not scratched off the triple three threes that Gigi gifted me during the holidays. How are you happy new years to you, and I know you wanted to get the pass for cash here in a home game. I’m trying to make a case that they could play a championship game here if our balls brother goes to kid, you know, because you know you’re trying to, wow. Are you worried about that now that cost you more money? No,
John Martin 01:16
no. Wow. You’re, you know, well, I do have a question for you, though it’s kind of interesting, if I understand correctly. Follow me along on this. You are wearing a Derek, Henry Oilers,
Nestor Aparicio 01:26
Houston Oiler. Houston Oiler, right,
John Martin 01:29
right, right. Which, of course, he never, he never saw they’re a mythical team at this point. They’re like, yeah, so, so does that mean you’re, if you’re ever wearing the ravens, uh, throwback jersey. It would be the jersey of
Nestor Aparicio 01:43
Jim Brown. There you go. Well, I maybe I brought this up with you, because I brought up with somebody last week, and I think it might have been you. Well, I brought this up this week with Clark judge, who’s a Hall of Fame voter on the show that if art modell came back to life today, and David, whom I loved, and I and they were on an island somewhere, and I could call him and say, you know, the Ravens have a running back that only has one comparable it’s Jim Brown. And I said, I’ve been on the radio 33 years. I’ve never compared anybody to Jim Brown. You know what I mean? Like, you could compare somebody to this guy or that guy, but like, comparing somebody to Ali or somebody to, well, you could compare its key, I guess, or Michael Jordan to LeBron. But, like, I’m not even a Cleveland guy, but there’s only been one Jim Brown. There’s been nobody else like him. You would agree with that from a football perspective. Oh,
John Martin 02:36
absolutely. That’s, I mean, I was fortunate to only see him. We’re at the tail end of his career, and I have just fleeting memories, but, but the film on him, and you look at some of the the epic runs that he had, and the way that he played the game and carried himself, well, he
Nestor Aparicio 02:50
was bigger than everybody else. That’s kind of the way that Derek Henry thing is, right? He’s just he it’s it you get down on the field. You know, who said he was big this week, Mike Flynn came on the show. He was the legend of the game. The only two people get on the field. Legend of the game, pass for cash. That’s it. On Raven game day, Leonard was on this week because they brought him and his family down and all that. And he talked about Lamar being really nice to his family and his kids right before the game. He said, Hey, man, when I played, our quarterbacks didn’t go over like, greet people’s families. He’s like, I thought that was nice, he said. But then Derek Henry came up, and he’s like, I blocked for Jamal. He said, Jamal ranch shorter than that, and Jamal had a 2000 yard season with Flynn run, you know, as a right as alignment. So you only get to be a legend of the game. So you guys are passing for cash this week with the this thing is never going to end until the Super Bowl, right? So we win a we get another ring around here, the Raven scratch off. Games alive
John Martin 03:46
well as as, as we spoke, and I think you may have had this conversation with Doug Lloyd of our, of our staff, you know, we anticipate all possibilities. So we have already selected six lucky people for three home dates, for the pass for cash, which is our on season or on field activation. The players themselves, the winners, do not throw the football. They have an alumni representative. I don’t know who that alumni representative will be for this weekend’s game, but I do know that the lucky lottery winners, Mark Chambers from Perryville and Kevin Green from Middletown, Maryland, those two are the lucky participants for this week. And should there be a second and or third playoff, home playoff game? We have those folks selected, and they are in a sequestered location in a remote place.
Nestor Aparicio 04:36
Did you see Kevin green? Yes, yes, I did not. Hall of Famer Kevin green, who’s who exactly, and a Steeler and a good guy. He did my show for like an hour one day at one of the Super Bowl, sat down and kind of hit it off of me, because he wanted to pick on me, because I was probably wearing a raven jersey at the time, right? He was a slow guy. I think he might have been off the Caroline at that point. Somebody said, Let. Raskin said this week, he’s like, Steve Smith’s gonna have a hard time getting the Hall of Fame, because we’ve been debating that this week. Steve Smith, Marshall, John The Terrell Suggs, all that’s going on right now. So I’ve had some of the voters on, and he said, Steve Smith will never get any play for the Carolina Panthers. They don’t have anybody in. I’m like, they’re like, Kevin green in, you know? So I mean, I mean, your guy, miles, Garrett’s going TO to a Canton whether the Browns ever win games or not. That’s my little cheap shot. But the one of the reasons I bought this, and I explained this my wife first I was my own little Christmas gift to myself was way on sale, because who wants it, right? If it Derek Henry’s going to the Hall of Fame, right? So there’s something about Hall of facial when you say Kevin green, I’m like, that’s a hall of fame name. So, like, I’m thinking, I so I’m hoping these folks get to pass for cash. What would happen if we play another one? Because there’s a scenario. And Clark judge brought this up, the hard balls go to Houston and win the other hardballs, the chargers, right? So they win, they might give the Chiefs a harder game, and if the Chiefs get knocked off, which is not something we talk about around here, but that would because John Martin, executive director in the mayor of the lottery, probably a little bit of money, right? Because you’ll absolutely cash, right?
John Martin 06:06
Yeah, we wouldn’t. We’d have two other folks that we will reveal should that occasion happen. I don’t want to they, of course, know who they are, but we don’t need to put their names out there yet. So, so jinx it. No, no, no. You can’t do that. You cannot do that, absolutely not. You know what else you can’t Jinx when winning. You cannot Jinx winning. And first of all, for people who are paying attention, as I hope they all are, we have Mega Millions jackpots, slowly on the rise again. Powerball over $200 million but our Little Engine That Could our multi match in State game up to $1.6 million and if you remember, we’ve talked about this very infrequently, but it can sneak up on you. It can be a significant jackpot. And if you’re not familiar with the game, it is a lotto style game, which means there are a number of of ping pong balls, virtual ping pong balls, bouncing around, if you will, that are selected twice a week. On Monday and Thursday evening, you get to play 18 numbers for $2 and here’s how you do that. You select numbers from one to 43 the first line of six numbers, if you will. And you can either pick them yourself, because numbers mean something to you in between one and 43
Nestor Aparicio 07:14
or you would say 22 for Derek, Henry, let’s start with
John Martin 07:16
There you go. There you go. You need five more. But that’s all right, that’s a good start. Eight. Lamar, okay, okay, we’re you don’t need to do it right now. I only get
Nestor Aparicio 07:23
one through 43 so I Yeah, in the old days, I wouldn’t get any of the defensive guys at all. But now these guys can wear any number they want.
John Martin 07:30
So sure, sure, absolutely, absolutely. So you get your your six numbers, and then the computer will generate two additional six number selections. So you have three lines of six numbers for a total of 18 numbers, and you have four chances to win. You can win on line A, B or C. If you get three to five to all six numbers, forget all six numbers. You win the jackpot. The jackpot now is 1.6 million and growing.
Nestor Aparicio 07:58
Now does it get over a million? Not too often, right? It’s a little
John Martin 08:02
engine that could, it chugs along, you know, every few months, if it isn’t hit, look it up there. I think at its all time height. It was with, this was a year or two ago. It was in the, I’m gonna say this wrong, maybe four or $5 million range. So it never gets up into the billion dollar category. It’s not competing with Powerball and Mega Millions. But for people who like the game like little diversion, like the fun aspect of this, because once you have a B and C’s lines, three lines of six numbers, all 18 numbers are available to you as well. So depending on how many numbers are drawn, you may select some winning numbers or get some winning numbers that will pay off upwards of $2,000 if you get anywhere between 10 and 18 or yeah over 10 numbers 10 of the 18. So it’s a fun way to play, different way to play. Check out MD lottery.com for not only the growing jackpot, but how to play and how to win multi match. Brought to you by your good friends at the Maryland lottery. At 1.6 million.
Nestor Aparicio 09:01
I would usually say that would get me off the radio next week. But if the Ravens win, I want to be if the Ravens lose, I want to be here. I mean, I just it’s playoffs. It’s a playoffs. John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Marilyn lottery and gaming. We’re getting to crab cake tour back out on the road. We’re gonna make up that thing at libs grill and Bel Air. Got Nick got everybody on board. We’re going to do in February. We’re going to do it. I texted John, I said, Let’s do it after the Ravens Parade, which is February 11. So, I mean, I took a look at that and said, Let’s just wait till after the parade, because we’re doing a couple of Super Bowl next month as well, and getting the pantries full in communities all around the area. I’ll have all of that up. So we’re going to have five crab cake tours in a row, and there’s going to be crab soup involved. It’s going to be cold, just like it’s been this. It’s been this week, by the way. I just want to have a little fun with you and say, Well, I’m wearing the double Deuce here and wearing the old Houston Oilers Jersey as I see it. Zero is not a number in multi match, correct? Zero. Remember the double zeros back in the day? Correct?
John Martin 09:56
No, it’s one to 43 in multi match and in any of the. Lottery game. It’s one 2x whatever that they let you wear
Nestor Aparicio 10:03
zero in football, but they don’t let you do that multi match. John, for winners. We’ve had a lot of winners. I see pictures up. I have things come through all the time. You always are bigger jackpots that people think I talk about 1.6 million and whatnot, but people are winning 50 100,006 figures, and they have to come and visit you down there and wear a purple boa. And sometimes they take fun pictures and do all that. Let’s talk a little bit about that, because I know during the holidays, you gave a lot of money away start the year. You know you
John Martin 10:31
can go to MD lottery.com, to to read winter stories. And sometimes they are, they are gracious enough to have their picture taken because they’re a little excited and they want to celebrate. They may say, may change their name, masquerade their identity. They may use some of our costuming and have some fun with with that. Matter of fact, if you go to MD lottery.com you’ll see the story of mark the lucky plumber. Now, I don’t know if Marcus’s real name. I don’t know if he’s a plumber by trade, but I do know he’s lucky, and he won a $60,000 Kino jackpot the other day in he is a Harford County man. He was in Bel Air, not at your location, it lives, but he was at Main Street tower Restaurant and Lounge,
Nestor Aparicio 11:16
another fine establishment, absolutely, where
John Martin 11:19
he won $60,000 playing a five spot. Again. You can get all the details at MD lottery.com but a nice looking picture of mark the lucky plumber, if, in fact, that is his name, and in fact, if that is his real occupation. But in addition to that, we have people playing a variety of our games. I like when people have stories like this, fast play, which, you know, is a and we’ll talk about fast play in a little more detail in a minute. But it’s a game which plays like a scratch game, but it’s generated by the terminal. It doesn’t have all the schmutz that you get when you scratch a scratch off tape. Official word, Google it. Go ahead. Yes, it is. It is. I don’t think
Nestor Aparicio 11:59
it has another I think that’s what it’s called. I mean, I don’t that you’ll do
John Martin 12:02
what else would you call it? Well, I
Nestor Aparicio 12:05
put you on this investigative thing a couple years ago. We brought it up, and I’m like, we still don’t have another name for it. And I don’t know silver stuff, yeah. I mean, it’s, it’s been called that for 50 years of scratch offs, as long as I can remember back in you know, yeah. So
John Martin 12:18
a is a young lady from McClinton, goes into her gas station there at the Marlboro pike shell, and she goes in to buy a pick three ticket. And unfortunately, it is a non winning ticket, but we had over the holidays our Let It Snow promotion where if you bought any pick three, pick four, pick five ticket on a random basis, you could win a cash prize or a fast play ticket. This young lady won a merry money match, $5 game. Scratch off ticket. Top prize, $50,000 bam. $50,000 winner, right then and there. So through our promotion, and we calculate these promotions on a regular basis, check them out at MD lottery.com she went and buying a pick three ticket. Didn’t win, got the free ticket as a as a promotion. Promotion happened to be a $50,000 winner. So how about that? And no schmutz. And
Nestor Aparicio 13:13
the other thing about the schmutz, because I give these away all the time, you know what they when I do the crap geeker, is that if you use the app and you said something, and this speaks to the salesman and me, you know, because, you know, I’ve read all those books on how to sell and the Carnegie school and all that is to call them non winning tickets. I’m like, come on, John, they’re losing tickets. Man, I didn’t win. I didn’t that’s the every lottery ticket is a non winning ticket, and it’s not just like a cell. There really is non winning, because you do have a second chance. If you have the app, if you use the app, it’s easy. It can be almost schmutz free. You know, you have to do the price check on it, but, but it is, um, the second chance and the non winning part of that, I don’t think we can say that enough, because I give these out to regular people. You know what I mean? Like when I’m out at Coco’s cut, just people regular any the people that are out, they’re not all lottery players. They don’t all have the app. They’re of all ages raised now age I have I, you know, I know the deal on that. They have to be of the age. Sometimes the kids get this point. I’m like, can’t do it. Can’t do it. Can’t give you a second ticket. Sometimes they get give me on that too. I’m like, Nah, can’t do that. So, but they don’t. A lot of people don’t know. And I think that it’s so easy, the download and the and it’s fun. The app’s fun because if you win, you get balloons and stuff. It’s neat. But I don’t think everybody understands that, that when you’re saying non winning, they’re not just saying, well, it’s losing ticket, because it’s
John Martin 14:49
not always have to keep those games in play. And I saved this, this last winter story for you particularly. Okay, so we had a husband and wife team from Frederick. County out
Nestor Aparicio 15:01
west there. Well, you know, I love Frederick, so
John Martin 15:03
of course, that’s why I said it for you. But, but here’s the kicker, they won a $30,000 top prize on peppermint payout
Nestor Aparicio 15:12
that smells like snowflake. Oh, I got you on that, didn’t I? That was good. That was good. All right,
John Martin 15:19
so they are lottery players. They went into their local Food Lion on a grocery run, which is a good place to be if you’re looking for groceries out in Vermont, Maryland. And they get a ticket. They scratch it off, and they look at it and they think, Hmm, that can’t be and they look at it again and again and again, they realize, no, it’s legit. They win $30,000 and and had some fun doing it. And they don’t care that it’s not Senate. They care that it had $30,000 right there in the winner’s circle. So listen
Nestor Aparicio 15:50
to me when I give these tickets away and the little balloons go off and I show people one congratulations. You want $2 $5 they’re really excited. So if the balloons go off and it’s 30 large, again, I wouldn’t take next week off because I have you booked on as well. We got football to talk about next week, but I would take a week off if I won 30 grand, I’d need, I need a little me time. And you know, so wouldn’t take much be a big winner. John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things lottery and gaming with our friends at the Maryland lottery, reminding everybody, Hey, man, a lot of games this weekend, you know, lot of parlays and this and that had a buddy of mine from Dundalk Sandy played some $2 parlay that he was couple of passes away last week, and he didn’t win and but either he’s like a $2 like me, You know, like low investment, high fun, high energy, and play the games because they’re fun, and everybody’s having fun when they’re out playing John, I get any final parting shots for me on football or anything this week, because I I want to make sure we get it all in. We’ve been snowed in this week. We might get snowed in again. I mean, stakes are high for football this weekend. We all think. I mean, I, I bought the Derrick Henry jersey. You know what Luke said to me when he looked at me, he’s like, better hope they don’t lose this week. You might never wear it again. I’m like, don’t say that. We feel like, so good with Derrick Henry coming off the bus right now. And besides, I advocated for this for years to get Derrick Henry. So there’s a lot of there’s a lot of purple blood in this Columbia blue jersey of mine right now. And I this is a great time for football, and I know a lot of folks are having fun with it. We always want to tell people to we know you’re going to be in front of TV watching 14 hours of it this weekend. Do slow with this? Right?
John Martin 17:29
It should be fun. Should be a great weekend. We certainly take a neutral stance when it comes to to wins and losses over the over the sports agenda, but, but, yeah, we do hope that people, if they choose to play and wager on these games, that they they understand the bets, they play responsibly, and they have some fun with it. I can tell you, we’ll have our official December month end sports wagering numbers, probably another few days, maybe before the weekend, we should have that available, and we’ll probably reflect a, again, a very active month in terms of handle. Amount actually wagered, but the players did, had a good month, so the net to the state wasn’t as large as it’s been in recent months, but that just means people are betting and winning, and more likely favorites are winning, and overs are winning on their prop bets and on their over under bet. So we’ll see how that plays out for the for the weekend. But you know, as I’m fond of telling people around here, that’s why they play the game, just don’t, don’t assume that. You know, favorites are always going to win. There’s going to be that underdog somewhere. I don’t know who it is. I don’t know what color Jersey they’re wearing. I see things, but I can’t see that clearly. Somebody may walk away with an upset this weekend that that shocks the world nine and
Nestor Aparicio 18:51
a half points. They say in Vegas as these they say in Maryland right now. And we remind everybody, 100 gamblers out there, if you have a problem, or, know some more, the problem. But please enjoy the games this weekend. It’s fun. Just like the lottery, it’s fun. We’re all sort of snowed in a little bit here. We’re going to get that Powerball up over a quarter billion dollars as well. So point here this week, John, Rest up. I feel like, as I sit here that I still could be wearing this jersey next week, a little bit more stained after a Pittsburgh, you know, appearance here this weekend. But it really is. I know they say The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. If you love sports. This is, this a great weekend of football, and we’re in the soup. We’re in the playoffs this week. And I know, you know, for our friends in Cleveland and Cincinnati and some other places, I used to say this about Washington all the time, and now they’re in, I don’t think I can’t even kick them around anymore, right? John,
John Martin 19:44
well, yes, and I know I speak for your wife when I say I hope that you’re not wearing that jersey exclusively between now and the next game, because that No, no,
Nestor Aparicio 19:52
no, we launder I know I’m a laundry I’m a launderer here. No, no. Okay, all good. John Martin, with great advice. For for me and keeping my sanity as well. Maryland trafficking tours get back out on the road in February, the whole week, the first week of February, we’re going to be doing a cup of soup or bowl. We’re going to be working with some local food pantries. We’re going to be doing that at Cocos. We’re going to be doing that at Costas. We’re going to be doing that out at State Fair in Catonsville. We’re going to be doing that at Cooper’s north. So we’re going to be doing it in fatal East downtown. So if you’re around, hopefully the ravens are going to be in New Orleans. Luke and I had a long chat about that this morning, as well full coverage of everything we do with the Ravens. Little Orioles, we’ve snuck in this week, as well as getting you ready for ravens and steels. It’s a big week around here, not just the Pittsburgh week. It’s playoff week, it’s a Lamar week, it’s a King Henry week. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore, positive. I.
