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People buy lottery tickets at a store in Penn Satation on July 27, 2016 in New York City. Kena Betancur/Getty Images

Winning the Powerball takes beating highly improbable odds. One lottery player in Arizona beat those odds but didn't claim a prize worth $1 million.

The $1 million winning Powerball ticket, which was purchased on May 21 in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, expired Thursday.

What happens to the money?

The Arizona Republic cited an Arizona State Lottery who confirmed that that the prize money will be allocated according to state statute, with "a little over 50% of the money will go into a fund for new promotions and games" and "about one-third of it will go to the Court Appointed Special Advocates program run by the Arizona Supreme Court." The rest of the funds will go to various social causes.

The expired prize in Arizona is not the first time a lottery player failed to cash in on the win in either Powerball or Mega Millions, the two major lotteries.

Sometimes the jackpot is far greater than $1 million. In 2011, a $77.1 million winning ticket that was purchased in Georgia went unclaimed and a winning ticket purchased in California worth $63 million went unclaimed in 2016.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot is 1 and 292 million, while Mega Millions has odds of 1 in 302.6 million.

The length of time winners get to claim their prizes varies by state.