High 5 Casino Settlement: Washington Claim Deadline Jan 4

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 is open: the form is live at high5lawsuit.com and it now shuts on January 4, 2027, seven weeks later than the date first set. 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. We have not read the settlement agreement itself, which the settlement site has since posted. Here is what the documents we did read 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. An Alabama deal covering Playstudios' myVEGAS and Pop Slots apps is built differently again: it pays in virtual coins by default and only pays cash, at a lower rate, to class members who file an election by October 21, 2026.

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. Every page there now carries a File a Claim link pointing at secure.high5lawsuit.com, and that address serves a live online claim form. When we published on September 8 there was no form to submit and we told readers to wait; there is one now, and the correction note above sets out how we checked.

The August 14 order set the opening date twice over, and both calculations landed on the same day. The Notice Date was "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 was separately defined as "fifty-six (56) days following the Notice Date," and the original November 13 minus 56 days is also September 18. The administrator opened the window ahead of that outside limit. The court has since moved both ends of it.

Every one of those dates moved on September 10, 2026, and the order that moved them prints its own before-and-after table. We reproduce it in full, using the order's own column headings; the "Proposed" column is what the judge signed.

We reported this move before we could read it. On September 10 the court entered an order the clerk logged as "Order on Motion to Continue AND ~Util - Set/Reset Deadlines/Hearings", and that entry is still title-only in the free federal mirror with no downloadable document. The settlement administrator has since posted the order itself on the settlement site's documents page, headed "ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO CONTINUE SETTLEMENT DEADLINES BY FIFTY-TWO (52) DAYS" and stamped Document 732, filed 09/10/26. It was unopposed: the order recites that it acts "Pursuant to Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion, and for good cause shown", holds that "All other provisions of the Preliminary Approval Order (Dkt. #726) remain in full force and effect", and directs that "The Settlement Administrator shall post the revised schedule of Settlement proceedings on the Settlement Website." That has been done.

One row in that table is worth reading twice. The Notice Date, the formal start of the notice period, moved from September 18, 2026 to November 9, 2026. The claim form did not wait for it: it was live at secure.high5lawsuit.com when we checked on September 10 and again on September 11, and it is the same route the settlement site points at today. So the window is open ahead of its own official opening and shuts on January 4, 2027. The site's notice still says deadlines "may be moved, canceled, or otherwise modified, so please check this site regularly for updates," and it has already been right about that once.

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. There is also a paper route: the claim form is published as a PDF on the settlement site's documents page, and a mailed claim has to be postmarked by the same January 4 deadline.

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, now Monday, February 8, 2027 at 3:00 PM.

The same January 4 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 January 4 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, which we flagged here when we published and have since made. Our High 5 Casino review said that a July 2026 sweep of litigation and regulator databases found no actions naming High 5 Entertainment beyond the Connecticut matter. That was wrong: High 5 Entertainment, LLC is a named defendant in this case, captioned alongside PTT, LLC in both the August 14 order and the court-approved notice. The review now says so and carries the January 4 deadline, and our Washington state page, which previously cited only the Big Fish Casino precedent, now covers this settlement too. 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. Re-read September 17, 2026, when it still gave September 10 as its date of last known filing: entries 729, 730 and 731 went on the file on September 9, labelled "Continue", "Compel" and "Declaration", and entry 732 on September 10, labelled "Order on Motion to Continue AND ~Util - Set/Reset Deadlines/Hearings". All four are title-only in the free federal mirror with no text and no available document
• Order granting Plaintiff's motion to continue settlement deadlines by fifty-two (52) days, Document 732, filed September 10, 2026 (PDF), posted by the settlement administrator rather than available through the federal mirror, for the six-row deadline table reproduced above, the "Unopposed Motion" recital, the direction to the administrator and Judge Cartwright's signature dated September 10, 2026. Page 2, which carries the table, is a flattened image rather than selectable text; we read it as rendered
• 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 original November 13 and December 14 dates
• Court-approved long form notice, re-issued version (PDF), for the January 4, 2027 claims, exclusion and objection deadline, the February 8, 2027 3:00 PM final approval hearing in Courtroom C and the December 18, 2026 fee-request date
• Court-approved long form notice, superseded version (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, none of which changed. This is the copy we cited on September 8 and it still resolves; it prints November 13, 2026 seven times and is no longer the operative notice
• 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 and re-read September 10, 2026
• The online claim form, reached from the File a Claim link on every page of the settlement site and titled "Submit a Claim", checked September 10 and re-checked September 11, 2026 - live on both days, with a deployed claim-form definition and what was then the November 13, 2026 filing deadline set as its active one
• 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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