The JuryScore is what the players say. It is deliberately hard to move, because an unweighted star average is the cheapest thing in this industry to buy.
How it is calculated
Three mechanisms, all published:
1. A Bayesian prior. Every casino starts with the equivalent of 5 phantom reviews at 5.5 out of 10. A single furious 0 or a single delighted 10 barely moves the number. Evidence has to accumulate.
2. Evidence weighting. Not every testimony counts the same:
| Verification | Weight |
|---|---|
| Organic (account only) | x1.0 |
| Email-verified | x1.2 |
| Proof-verified (redacted payout receipt or statement) | x1.6 |
A Senior Juror adds +0.2 on top.
3. Recency decay. A review's weight halves every 18 months, with a floor of 10%. A four-year-old review still counts, quietly.
Do the arithmetic
Twelve proof-verified reviews, all recent, all rating the casino 8.0:
- Total weight: 12 x 1.6 = 19.2
- Weighted rating sum: 19.2 x 8.0 = 153.6
- JuryScore = (153.6 + 8 x 5.5) / (19.2 + 8) = 197.6 / 27.2 = 7.26
Twelve glowing reviews produce a 7.26, not an 8.0. That is the prior doing its job. To reach 8.0, the casino needs many more of them, which is exactly the point.
What it is not
The JuryScore is not the safety score. It is the experience score. Our editorial judgement of an operator's terms, licence and conduct is the TrustAudit Index, and testimony never touches it.
Below five real reviews we flag an early verdict. Below the cold-start threshold there is no score at all — see not yet rated.