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If you bought a lottery ticket in Spokane County in November, you might want to give it another look.

Washington’s Lottery says a $1,000,000 Powerball prize from a ticket bought in Airway Heights expires tomorrow, Saturday May 6.

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Another $10,000 Match 4 prize bought in Puyallyp also expires in a few weeks.

You can check the previous winning numbers on the , and if you still have your ticket, you can contact the lottery to claim your prize.

The prize is funded entirely from ticket revenue. State law requires at least 45% of sales to go toward that jackpot, but typically the Lottery Commission will devote between 60 and 65%.

If it remains unclaimed after then, most of the money will go back to the lotto fund, but one-third of it will go to public works projects such as education funds, public infrastructure, a joint center for aerospace technology innovation, or other predetermined state funds.

In the meantime, now might be a good time to buy a lottery ticket. The jackpot is up to $1.2 million.

The next drawing is Saturday.