Just got fucked by the item eating bug.

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Did you already have 10 items sitting in your 'inventory' by any chance?

What, is that a limitation?

However, the bug occurs even in late game, when I am otherwise fully equipped.

A few practices tend to lower the chance of the bug occurring:

1. Don't sell a champion equipped with a full item from the bench. Move it to the board, and sell it from there. However, if the champion was placed directly onto the board because your bench was full, then swap it from bench to board a couple times.

2. If possible, don't sell the champion / open the orb immediately; rather, wait a round or two.

3. Before opening the Gold Orb, test a Blue one. If the blue one is empty, chances are, the Gold one isn't "ready" yet. (Grey orbs seem to be safe always.)

4. Don't even bother with champions on the carousel that have Spatula items that will immediately pop off (their own trait). That's an instant lost item.

5. The bug does not occur before the round after Wolves. In most cases, not even until Birds.

Hopefully this helps somebody.

Hopefully somebody that can really help, reads this.