diff --git a/engines/scumm/verbs.cpp b/engines/scumm/verbs.cpp
index fca55d3895f..efd15c0cc8c 100644
--- a/engines/scumm/verbs.cpp
+++ b/engines/scumm/verbs.cpp
@@ -1073,6 +1073,33 @@ void ScummEngine::drawVerb(int verb, int mode) {
 	if (!verb)
 		return;
 
+	// The way we implement high-resolution font on a scaled low-resolution
+	// background requires there to always be a text surface telling which
+	// pixels have been drawn on. This means that the "has mask" feature is
+	// not correctly implemented, and in most cases this works just fine
+	// for both Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
+	//
+	// However, there is at least one scene in Indiana Jones - room 80,
+	// where you escape from the zeppelin on a biplane - where the game
+	// (sloppily, in my opinion) draws two disabled verbs (Travel and Talk)
+	// and then counts on the background to draw over them. Obviously that
+	// won't work here.
+	//
+	// As far as I can tell, all normal rooms, i.e. rooms that could
+	// sensibly have verbs, are 128 pixels tall. Other heights I've seen
+	// are 136, 176, 184, 192 and 200, probably depending at least partly
+	// on how much text is displayed in them.
+	//
+	// So to work around the issue, we only draw verbs in rooms that are
+	// 128 pixels tall and hope for the best.
+	//
+	// Note that with the low-resolution font, which does implement the
+	// "has mask" feature, the Macintosh version still needs a hack in
+	// printChar() for black text to work properly. This version of the
+	// game is weird.
+	if (_game.id == GID_INDY3 && _macScreen && _roomHeight > 128)
+		return;
+
 	vs = &_verbs[verb];
 
 	if (!vs->saveid && vs->curmode && vs->verbid) {