Removing room with special item/ability doesn't really remove it from the pool like it claims.

[Imminent Orbit]

Using the Crown to remove a red room from the pool gives me the gem but often, in the very next draft, that removed room is still available to draft.

[SentientBot]

Yeah... I noticed that too at times. There are some special cases in the way the drafting pool works that aren't always intuitive and aren't always explained.

Another great example is the Secret Passage... at the beginning of the game, there are only three green rooms (Cloister, Courtyard, Aquarium) that can be internal to the house and they all have a gem cost - so using it will always offer all three - even if they are already placed and will always make the first one chosen have a waived gem cost.

Your example, I couldn't quite figure out what was making it happen so never came up with a way to leverage it.

[Draco18s]

I, too, have had this issue.

[PersonalC0ffee]

I have also seen this and the only thing I can think of, is that it is a fail safe to avoid running out of rooms in that pool.

[Silyon]

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

I have also seen this and the only thing I can think of, is that it is a fail safe to avoid running out of rooms in that pool.

Not much of a fail-safe. Even discounting every red room and unique ones like the secret Garden and Room 8, there are more rooms in the pool than there are spaces to place rooms in the house. I can't fathom a situation in which such a fail-safe would be necessary. You would need SO MANY repellents.

Therefore I consider it not working as intended. Half-way works though, happy to take the gem and the free reroll even if it doesn't actually remove rooms.

[SentientBot]

Near the edges of the manor, the pool can get very limited. With one exception, it won't offer a tile that would have an exit facing the outer wall of the manor - and then some rooms like Throne Room and Boiler Room have some doorways that can never be chosen as the entrance (It is why you can't get the Boiler Room on the West wing drafting up).