diff --git a/engines/simon/charset.cpp b/engines/simon/charset.cpp
index f0b5cfa0407..6f7b8e1c7e7 100644
--- a/engines/simon/charset.cpp
+++ b/engines/simon/charset.cpp
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ void SimonEngine::renderString(uint vga_sprite_id, uint color, uint width, uint
 		// after this one. By default, each buffer is only 9000 bytes
 		// long. A two-line string can very well be more than twice
 		// that size!
-		WRITE_LE_UINT16(p + 8, READ_LE_UINT32(p) + width * height);
+		if (vga_sprite_id != 1)
+			WRITE_LE_UINT16(p + 8, READ_LE_UINT32(p) + width * height);
 	} else {
 		WRITE_BE_UINT16(p + 4, height);
 		WRITE_BE_UINT16(p + 6, width);