High 5 Casino Settlement: Washington Claim Deadline Nov 13

If you bought virtual coins in the High 5 Casino or High 5 Vegas apps while in Washington between April 9, 2014 and October 1, 2022, you can claim a share of a settlement fund worth at least $12,000,000. The claims window has not opened yet: it starts on or before September 18, 2026 and shuts on November 13, 2026. Doing nothing gets you nothing and still gives up your right to sue.

We reported the deadline last week inside our piece on arbitration opt-out windows, and said plainly that we had read the court's order and nothing else, so we could not tell you what a claim was worth. We have now read the court-approved notice, the claim form and the judgment, though not the settlement agreement itself. Here is what they say.

Who is covered by the High 5 settlement?

Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright's August 14, 2026 order certifies a settlement class of "all individuals in Washington who played or purchased virtual coins on either High 5 Casino or High 5 Vegas Applications after April 9, 2014 and before October 1, 2022," including people identified by billing address, IP address or platform records as being in Washington or making Washington purchases.

Read "Applications" literally. This is about the old social-casino apps on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google, and the claim form asks for your Platform ID on whichever of those four you used. It is not about the current sweepstakes site at high5casino.com, and the class window shuts on October 1, 2022. Anyone who only started playing since then is outside it.

The case is Larsen v. PTT, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-05275-TMC, in the Western District of Washington. The defendants are PTT, LLC, doing business as High 5 Games, and High 5 Entertainment, LLC. Both belong to the corporate family behind High 5 Casino, which we track on our High 5 Entertainment operator profile.

How much is the High 5 settlement worth?

The order describes "a non-reversionary Settlement Fund with a minimum value of $12,000,000 and a maximum of $30,000,000." The court-approved notice explains how that money actually arrives, and the schedule is the part nobody is quoting.

So a jury already found for this class and a judge entered judgment for $24.9m under Washington's Recovery of Money Lost at Gambling Act, RCW 4.24.070, and the Consumer Protection Act, RCW 19.86.090. The guaranteed floor of the settlement is less than half of that, paid out over as much as nine years. The order says the deal was reached after an "independent forensic accounting review of Defendants' financial condition," which tells you why the structure looks the way it does. Your own share depends on what you spent, how many people claim, and how much the defendants end up paying in.

The notice puts no number on an individual payment, but it does give one comparison, and it is the closest thing to guidance a class member gets: "in other similar social casino litigation, Class Members have recovered substantial portions of the total amount they spent in the Applications." That is a court-approved sentence about other cases, not a promise about this one. For how differently these deals can be built, we read Amazon's $201m social casino settlement, filed in the same federal district, and found a headline number that pays the class nothing directly.

There is also non-cash relief: the defendants agreed to keep a voluntary self-exclusion policy, to give players a way to restrict purchases or close an account, and to make sure "players who run out of virtual coins can continue to play at least one game without purchasing more."

How do you file a High 5 claim?

Through the settlement website at high5lawsuit.com, which JND Legal Administration took over from Kroll under the same order. Not yet, though. We checked the site on September 8 and it still lists the claim form as upcoming, with no form to submit.

The order sets the opening date twice over, and both calculations land on the same day. The Notice Date is "no later than thirty-five (35) days after entry of this Order," and the order was entered August 14, which gives September 18. The claims deadline is separately defined as "fifty-six (56) days following the Notice Date," and November 13 minus 56 days is also September 18. So the whole claims window is eight weeks long and it has not started. Check back after September 18.

When it does open, you will need your High 5 Player IDs if you have them, the Platform IDs and email addresses tied to the accounts, and a signature affirming the details under penalty of perjury. Payment options on the form are check, Zelle, Venmo or ACH direct deposit.

Three details buried in the notice that change what you should expect:

1. Small shares are held back. If your share is under $10.00 at a given distribution, it is carried forward until the running total reaches $10.00.
2. Checks expire. They "become void 90 days after they are issued."
3. Money comes in rounds. Because the fund is paid in instalments, payments "may be distributed in more than one round" across the multi-year period. Nothing moves before the final approval hearing on December 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM.

The same November 13 date is also the deadline to exclude yourself or to object, and you cannot do both. The claims administrator's helpline is 1-888-663-1726, and class counsel offer free help on 1-800-984-9057.

What happens if you do nothing?

You stay in the class, you get no money, and you release the claims anyway. The notice is blunt about one term that reaches beyond this case: settlement class members "are estopped from contending that virtual coins in the Applications are 'things of value' under Washington law." That is the exact legal question Washington has been the industry's hardest state over for a decade, and it is the argument this class is signing away.

Why does this matter if you play sweepstakes casinos now?

Because High 5's live rulebook still points at this case and gets it wrong, and it is not the only place its own documents contradict each other. Its Terms of Use, Version 45.0 dated June 26, 2026 and re-read by us today, tells Washington players in Section 16 that accepting arbitration means giving up "ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN OR OBTAIN ANY RELIEF IN THE FOLLOWING PENDING ACTION: WILSON V. PTT, LLC, CASE NO. 3:18-CV-05275-RBL." Sean Wilson filed it in 2018, but the docket has been captioned Larsen for years and sits before Judge Cartwright, not Judge RBL. Search the name the contract prints and you will not find the settlement. High 5 blocks Washington in its own clause 3.1.4 today, so this clause only reaches past players, which is exactly who the November 13 deadline is for. Our guide to whether sweepstakes casinos are legal covers why Washington is treated as the highest-risk state in the country.

One correction on our own file, flagged for the owner rather than edited here: the High 5 Casino review says "We checked litigation and regulator databases in our July 2026 sweep and found no other actions naming High 5 Entertainment beyond the Connecticut matter." High 5 Entertainment, LLC is a named defendant in this case: the August 14 order and the court-approved notice both caption it alongside PTT, LLC as one of two defendants. Our Washington state page cites the Big Fish Casino precedent and does not mention this settlement either. Both need updating, and this is how we check everything we publish when it turns out we were the ones who were wrong.

Sources & documents

• Larsen v. PTT, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-05275 (W.D. Wash.) - full docket, for the case history and the August 20, 2026 last entry
• Order granting preliminary approval of the class action settlement, August 14, 2026 (PDF), for the class definition, the $12m to $30m fund, the appointment of JND Legal Administration and the November 13 and December 14 dates
• Court-approved long form notice (PDF), for the $4m initial payment, the eight years of $1m minimum annual payments, the $10 distribution floor, the 90-day check expiry and the estoppel term
• Judgment in a civil case, June 11, 2025 (PDF), for the $24,928,712.17 damages-class award and the two statutes it was entered under
• Settlement claim form (PDF) and the settlement website, read September 8, 2026
• High 5 Casino Terms of Use, Version 45.0, June 26, 2026, for the Section 16 Washington notice and the clause 3.1.4 restricted-territory list

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