diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2e25e6a3d60..872a91ccdd3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ script:
   - shopt -s globstar
   - (! grep 'step_[xy]' maps/**/*.dmm)
   - (! find nano/templates/ -type f -exec md5sum {} + | sort | uniq -D -w 32 | grep nano)
-  - (num=`grep -E '\\\\(red|blue|green|black|b|i[^mc])' **/*.dm | wc -l`; [ $num -le 1355 ])
+  - (num=`grep -E '\\\\(red|blue|green|black|b|i[^mc])' **/*.dm | wc -l`; echo "$num escapes (expecting 1277 or less)"; [ $num -le 1277 ])
   - md5sum -c - <<< "0af969f671fba6cf9696c78cd175a14a *baystation12.int"
   - md5sum -c - <<< "88490b460c26947f5ec1ab1bb9fa9f17 *html/changelogs/example.yml"
   - python tools/TagMatcher/tag-matcher.py ../..