Who Owns High 5 Casino? High 5 Entertainment (July 2026)
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Who owns High 5 Casino? High 5 Entertainment, which runs the sweepstakes product on content built by High 5 Games - a New York studio founded in 1995, decades before "sweepstakes casino" was a category. That history is the operator's biggest asset. It's also the operator that walked away from a state license rather than fight for it, which is worth knowing too.
The company
High 5 Games, the underlying content studio, was founded in 1995 and is headquartered at 1 World Trade Center in New York - a genuinely unusual pedigree in a category dominated by Gibraltar and Isle of Man shell structures. The studio holds a Malta Gaming Authority license for its content. High 5 Entertainment operates the sweepstakes-specific product, High 5 Casino, which launched in 2020 and claims 33 million-plus players since. High 5 Games (the 30-year content studio) and High 5 Casino (the 2020-launched sweepstakes product) are related but distinct - worth not conflating when you're researching either one.
Brand portfolio
- High 5 Casino - the operator's only sweepstakes brand, running a distinctive triple-currency model (Game Coins, Diamonds, and Sweeps Coins) instead of the standard two-currency GC/SC setup most rivals use.
The good
High 5 Casino posts a 4.4/5 Trustpilot score across roughly 3,097 reviews - one of the stronger scores in our entire database - with praise centered on fast payouts and ease of use. The High 5 Prestige loyalty program backs that up with a dedicated promotions structure. On the business side, high5affiliates.com runs one of the more professional-looking affiliate operations we found: revenue share, CPA, hybrid, and custom deals, with payments processed monthly and what the program itself describes as transparent, trusted tracking.
The documented bad
This is the one operator in our directory where a state regulator action produced an actual license surrender, not just a cease-and-desist letter. When Connecticut's Public Act 25-112 banned sweepstakes casinos (signed June 2025, effective October 1, 2025), High 5 Games surrendered its Connecticut license as part of a $1.5 million settlement - a materially bigger consequence than the cease-and-desist letters most operators simply ignored elsewhere. High 5 was also named in Arizona's aggressive multi-wave cease-and-desist campaign (alongside Pulsz and Stake.us, among 17-plus operators hit) and in Illinois's February 2026 cease-and-desist wave. On the product side, High 5's $100 cash redemption minimum is flagged by outside reviewers as high relative to competitors, and we couldn't confirm whether High 5 Casino runs native mobile apps at all - that's a real information gap, not a confirmed absence.
Should you trust High 5 Entertainment's casino?
The 30-year studio pedigree and MGA-licensed content are genuine differentiators - this isn't a shell company that appeared in 2023. The Connecticut settlement is worth taking seriously, though: surrendering a license under a $1.5 million settlement is a bigger regulatory event than most operators in this category have faced, and it happened because Connecticut's ban made the license itself untenable, not because of a player-harm finding we could find. High 5 Casino isn't on our blacklist of closed or exit-scam brands, and the Trustpilot record backs up a genuinely solid player experience where it's still legal to play.
Read our full High 5 Casino review, see where it lands on this month's top 10 rankings, and check your own state's status on the eligibility matrix - High 5 excludes 17 states in total.
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FAQ
Who owns High 5 Casino?
High 5 Entertainment, which builds the sweepstakes product on game content from High 5 Games, a New York studio founded in 1995 and based at 1 World Trade Center.
Is High 5 Casino legit?
Yes, on player-facing evidence - a 4.4/5 Trustpilot score and one of the more professional affiliate programs we reviewed. It did surrender its Connecticut license in a $1.5 million settlement after the state's 2025 sweepstakes ban.
Why did High 5 leave Connecticut?
Connecticut's Public Act 25-112, signed June 2025 and effective October 1, 2025, banned sweepstakes casinos outright; High 5 Games settled with the state and surrendered its license rather than continue operating there.