Weapons

Weapons are found in every Hunger Games and used to inflict harm on something or someone. They can also be found in the districts, most often being used by Peacekeepers in the form of firearms, such as handguns and machine guns. In addition, firebombs are used by the Capitol when they destroy District 12, para-bombs are used by District 13 in the Capitol, both District 13 and the Capitol possess nuclear weapons, and standard bombs are dropped by hovercrafts. In Mockingjay, Katniss and Gale are given bows and arrows specially designed to take down the Capitol's forces.

Axe
An axe is a weapon found in some Hunger Games. It would be found in the Cornucopia. The axe is likely to be used by the District 7 tributes like Johanna Mason, due to their focus on lumber. It is also the weapon that Haymitch Abernathy used to defeat to the District 1 female tribute in the 50th Hunger Games.



Awl
An awl is a tool with a blade like a screwdriver and a handle made from wood or plastic. An awl is usually used to poke holes in wood or leather, but it can also be used as a weapon.

In Catching Fire, Katniss grabs an awl from the Cornucopia that she later gives to Mags.

Blowgun
The blowgun is a handheld weapon that, when blown into, shoots out darts.

During the 50th Hunger Games, Maysilee Donner dipped darts in poisonous substances to make them deadly. She then used a blowgun to shoot two Careers and they fell to the ground, both dead instantly.

Bow and arrow
The bow is mostly a springy piece of wood, usually ash or yew, with the ends tightly connected by catgut or a linen string coated in beeswax. The arrows are straight pieces of wood tipped with sharp bits of metal or stone and fletched with goose feathers or plastic. A bow's power is expressed in pounds, being the strength with which the user has to pull to bring the bow back to a certain extent.

The bow was favored by Katniss in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. In Mockingjay, Katniss is given a special, military-grade bow for the rebellion in District 13. It is highly advanced, specifically crafted to fit Katniss, and is equipped with explosive and incendiary arrows alongside regular ones.

Camouflage
Camouflage is a weapon favored by Peeta in the 74th annual Hunger Games. Camoflage is blending into your surroundings concealing yourself. In the training center, District 6 tributes show camorflage to the gamemakers during the 75th annual Hunger Games.

Dagger
A dagger is a double-edged fighting knife with a central spine and full-length cutting edges. It differs from a regular knife in that it has a double-edged blade. A knife is a tool as well as a piece of silverware, and although it can be used as a weapon, this is not its primary function. A dagger's sharply pointed dual-edged blade allows it to be used either for slashing cuts or for thrusts to an opponent's body. The blade is similar to that of a sword, but much shorter.

Electricution
Electricution is a process favored by District 3 tributes. By using electricution, you are conducting electricity with a metal wire usually to blow up a force feild or electricute someone to death. In the 75th Hunger Games Beetee coils a wire to Katniss's arrow, and is instructed to shoot at the force feild when a bolt of lightning strikesthe coil a top a tree. When this was executed properly she blew a hole in the barrier of the hunger games creating an escape.

Explosives
Explosives are a rare but effective weapon in the hunger games. In the 74th Hunger Games, a boy from Disrtrict 3 dug up the inactive mines at the Cornicopia, reactivated them, and positioned them around the career pack's supplies. Katniss manages to out smart them by shooting an arrow at a bag of apples to set off the mines, blowing up the supplies, and injuring her ear in the process.

Hunger
Hunger is a weapon not provided in the cornicopia,but one that Katniss utilizes. By blowing up the career pack's food supply, she is starving the well built tributes inadequate of hunting and starving over periods of time. Stealing another's food is utilizing hunger as a weapon as well.



Knife
A knife is a sharp blade with a handle. It is used as a weapon, a piece of silverware, and a useful tool. Although Katniss prefers her bow, she uses knives on more than one occasion, including when she drops a tracker jacker nest on the Career pack.

Peeta Mellark appears to favor this weapon in combat, as do Haymitch and Clove, the female District 2 tribute in the 74th Hunger Games. Peeta and Haymitch favor knife-fighting and Clove prefers knife-throwing.

Mace
A mace is a heavy wooden club with a spiked metal end. In one unidentified Games, maces were the only weapons in the Cornucopia. It is not said if there were any supplies or only maces. It is unknown if anyone in the 74th or 75th Hunger Games used them.

Muttations
Muttations are generally used by the capitol in the Hunger Games, but in the 74th annual Hunger Games Katniss uses a knife to cut a tracker jacker nest to fall into the career pack's campsite killing at least one.

Net
A net is a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals.

Nets are mainly used by District 4 for fishing, but they were also utilized by Finnick Odair during the 65th Hunger Games. He wove a net from a kind of vine he had found in the arena. He would entangle his opponents with the net and then spear them with a trident. Another person who used a net to kill someone was Marvel, during 74th Hunger Games. He used the net to entangle Rue and killed her with a spear.

Slingshot
A slingshot is a projectile weapon that can be used to fling small objects, such as stones, short distances. Skilled slingshot users, such as Rue, are highly accurate and can hit a target with each shot.

Snare
A snare is a rope or wire that is tied to an object to trap prey and suffocate it. Gale Hawthorne is said to be an expert at making and using them when hunting.

Spear
A spear is a weapon that consists of a wooden shaft with a sharp metal "head" or tip. It is one of the few weapons that is always used in the Hunger Games, found in the Cornucopia at the beginning of the Games. In the 74th Hunger Games, Marvel uses a spear to kill Rue. The spear was then taken from the arena along with Rue's body. Cato also used a spear during the 74th Hunger Games, and presumably killed other tributes with it. In the 75th Hunger Games Brutus used a spear when he attempted to kill Peeta Mellark by throwing it at him.

Speed
Speed is used as more of a defensive weapon. Foxface uses her speed to avoid getting killed along with many other tributes. The Careers usually use speed as both an offensive and defensive weapon. As an offensive weapon it can be used to catch Trbiutes or others and then when they get them, killing them

Strength
Strength and combat are other weapons not provided in the cornicopia, but taught to over a period of time. Some tributes can claw another to death if their opponent has been disarmed or off guard. Some tributes, like Enobaria, have been known to rip apart someone's throat with their teeth. Cato almost chocked Peeta to death in the 74th annual Hunger Games. Others coud snap one's neck,beat until death,or dent in skull.

Sword
A sword is a long, edged piece of forged metal that can be used as a cutting, thrusting, or sometimes clubbing weapon. All swords consist of a blade and a hilt. The blade typically has one or two edges, which are used for cutting and striking, and comes to a point used for thrusting. Cato, a tribute in the 74th Hunger Games, was a known user of the sword and uses one to severely injure Peeta's leg.

Swords are often among the supplies provided in the Cornucopia during the Games.

Throwing axe
The throwing axe is a weapon favoured by District 7 tributes; Johanna Mason in particular uses one in the 75th Hunger Games when she, Katniss, Peeta, Beetee, Wiress and Finnick journey to the Cornucopia. It is like a normal axe, but easier to throw because it is specially designed for this purpose, being lighter. It is also used by the District 1's female tribute in the 50th Hunger Games, and would have potentially delivered Haymitch a deathblow if he had not outsmarted her.

Throwing knives
Throwing knives are one of the main weapons used during the Games. Throwing knives often look different than regular knives. They are easier to throw because they are designed for throwing, not chopping food. In the 74th Hunger Games, many tributes used them. To throw a knife, you mainly hold the blade and then throw it with a flick. It turns in the air, and if the flick has been executed properly the blade will hit the target. When using throwing knives, you must be able to kill in just a few throws, or else you are giving knifes to your opponent.

During the 74th Games, Clove is particularly skilled in throwing knives and uses one to kill the boy from District 9. She has an impressive assortment of them in her jacket and nearly kills Katniss with one, but it instead hits her backpack.

Trident
A trident is a three-pronged spear that can be used both as a weapon and for fishing. Although they are often used in fishing by the residents of District 4, they are deadly weapons and as such, tridents are often utilized during the Hunger Games by tributes from District 4. A silver trident that was given to Finnick Odair during the 65th Hunger Games is said to be "one of the most expensive gifts ever given in the Games."

Whip
A whip is a weapon, mostly used for punishment but also for combat. It is used by "cracking" the whip through the air, making it hit an opponent painfully. Whips also typically feature a hard butt that can be used as a bludgeon.

Some Peacekeepers hold public floggings, like Romulus Thread did to Gale Hawthorne, for crimes such as poaching. These both punish the offending party and scare the local community into submission.

Rocks
Rocks are items of nature that can be used as weapons. Thresh smashes Clove's head with a rock during the feast, denting in her skull and ultimately killing her. Rue uses a sharp fleck of rock as a makeshift weapon.