A list of known Hunger Games in chronological order.
Known Hunger Games[]
1st-9th Hunger Games[]
Exterior of the Capitol Arena
During the first nine Hunger Games, tributes were held in the Peacekeepers' stables.[1] Soon after, they were locked inside the Capitol Arena with nothing but weapons while the audience watched from the comfort of their own homes. At the conclusion of each competition, the bodies would be removed and the doors locked until the next year with no further fanfare.[2] Districts 1 and 2 produced more victors in these years, but Districts 4 and 11 were also considered contenders.[3] The Head Gamemaker was Dr. Volumnia Gaul. There was no history of muttations ever being used in the first nine years of the Games.[4]
9th Hunger Games[]
On the first evening of the 10th Hunger Games, Dr. Gaul said that "In terms of fatalities, [they were] running neck and neck with last year".[5] This implies that during the 9th Hunger Games, around 10 tributes had died by 5pm on the first day.
10th Hunger Games[]
Interior of the Capitol Arena during the 10th Hunger Games
The 10th Hunger Games was the first to introduce mentors, who were the top twenty-four students from the Capitol's Academy.[3] It also introduced betting, sponsorship, sponsor gifts,[6] and interviews.[7] Additionally, snake mutts were released into the arena, making them the first mutts to be used in this way.[4] Prior to the Games, tributes were held in the Capitol Zoo,[1] and they later competed inside the Capitol Arena, the landscape of which had been altered by a bombing.[8] Dr. Gaul once again served as Head Gamemaker.
Many tributes and their mentors were killed before the Games officially began, and the victor, Lucy Gray Baird from District 12, won by cheating with the help of her mentor, Coriolanus Snow.[9] Written off an embarrassing failure, all but one recording of the 10th Hunger Games were destroyed, though aspects like the interviews, betting, sponsorship, and mentorship would be carried forward in future editions.[10] This also marked the beginning of Snow's rise to power; he would eventually become the President of Panem.
11th Hunger Games[]
After the failure of the previous year, the Gamemakers brainstormed ways to engage the districts and the Capitol for the 11th Hunger Games. New additions included incentives to send forward stronger tributes, such as food parcels for the winning district, the creation of the Victors' Village, and monetary prizes for the victors themselves.[11] The victor this year was 16-year-old Mags Flanagan from District 4, who became the first to embark on a Victory Tour.[12]
25th Hunger Games / First Quarter Quell[]
This was the first Quarter Quell. Every twenty-five years, a new twist would be introduced for a special edition of the Hunger Games. The twist this year was that each district had to elect its own tributes.[13] The victor of these Games died sometime before the third Quarter Quell, which was held fifty years later.[14]
38th Hunger Games[]
These Games were not mentioned in the original trilogy, but revealed by Capitol Couture, a Hunger Games website promoting the movies. According to Capitol Couture, District 5 victor Porter Millicent Tripp sustained a broken neck in the final showdown.[15]
45th Hunger Games[]
District 11 victor Chaff lost his hand during these Games. He did not accept a prosthesis from the Capitol.[16]
50th Hunger Games / Second Quarter Quell[]
For the second Quarter Quell, two boys and two girls were reaped from each district, bringing the total number of tributes to 48. These Games were won by Haymitch Abernathy from District 12, who survived an arena full of poison, deadly mutts, and an active volcano. His last opponent, a girl from District 1, was killed when she unknowingly threw her axe into a force field, which redirected the weapon back at her.[14]
62nd Hunger Games[]
During her Games, District 2 volunteer[17] and victor Enobaria killed one tribute by ripping open his throat with her teeth. This made her very popular, and after her victory, she surgically altered her teeth so each one ended in a point like a fang, inlaid with gold.[18]
63rd Hunger Games[]
Gloss from District 1 was the victor of the 63rd Hunger Games. Being from a Career district, it's assumed that Gloss was in an alliance with the other Career tributes. His sister won the following year.[14]
64th Hunger Games[]
The victor this year was Cashmere from District 1.[19] She's presumed to have been in a Career alliance, and her brother, Gloss, won the year prior.[14]
65th Hunger Games[]
Finnick Odair from District 4 was the youngest victor in Hunger Games history at the age of 14. As a Career tribute, he was adept with spears and knives, and he held his own in the arena until his many sponsors, drawn to him by his good looks, gifted him a particularly expensive trident. At this point, Finnick secured his victory by netting other tributes and stabbing them with his trident.[16]
67th Hunger Games[]
These Games were not mentioned in the original trilogy, but revealed by Capitol Couture. The 67th Hunger Games were won by Augustus Braun from District 1, who was known as the "Cavalier Career", and hailed as "Panem's Favorite Son."[20]
70th Hunger Games[]
Annie Cresta from District 4 was traumatized after seeing her fellow District 4 tribute get beheaded. She hid for the remainder of the Games until an earthquake broke a dam, flooding the arena. Since Annie came from the fishing district, she was the best swimmer, so she was able to outlast the remaining tributes.[21]
71st Hunger Games[]
District 7 victor Johanna Mason pretended to be weak and fragile so others would underestimate her before she revealed her dangerous competence in the arena.[22]
72nd Hunger Games[]
According to an interview with Caesar Flickerman at the start of The Hunger Games film, this was Seneca Crane's first year as Head Gamemaker.[23]
73rd Hunger Games[]
The finale of the 73rd Hunger Games
The 73rd Hunger Games were won by an unnamed male from District 2, assumed to be a member of a Career alliance. During the final battle, he used a brick to kill the boy from 10. This was Seneca Crane's second year as Head Gamemaker.[23]
74th Hunger Games[]
Katniss and Peeta holding out nightlock berries
This was Seneca Crane's third and final year as Head Gamemaker.[23] When District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark threatened double suicide by deadly nightlock berries, leaving the Capitol at risk of having no victor at all, both were allowed to win.[24] This would be the inciting incident for a series of uprisings across Panem, leading to the eventual revolution.
75th Hunger Games / Third Quarter Quell[]
The 75th Hunger Games arena.
For the third Quarter Quell, the tributes were reaped from their district's existing pool of victors.[13] This was Plutarch Heavensbee's first and only year as Head Gamemaker.[25] The Games were interrupted by a rebel plan to break out of the arena, so no victor was ever crowned, though six tributes survived.[26] This was the final Games ever held, and the Games were abolished after the Second Rebellion.[27]
76th Hunger Games[]
The idea of a 76th Hunger Games was put forth by District 13 President Alma Coin. She proposed that tributes be reaped from the children of Capitol officials, in order to satisfy calls for bloodshed and even genocide against Capitol citizens. This proposal was voted upon by the seven victors who survived the war, but while it was approved,[28] it was never officially held.[27]
Unknown Hunger Games[]
Victors of unknown Games[]
- District 3 victor Beetee Latier won his Games by setting up an electrical trap with wire.[29] In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Haymitch said Beetee had electrocuted six tributes at once.[30]
- In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Haymitch also said that the District 6 female and District 6 male, also known as the morphlings, won their respective Games with the use of camouflage.[30]
Other victors[]
No specific details have been given about the Hunger Games won by the following victors:
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Other Games[]
- One year, the tributes had to bludgeon each other to death with spiked maces, the only available weapons.[22]
- One arena had a landscape of boulders, sand, and scruffy bushes. Many tributes were bitten by venomous snakes or "went insane from thirst".[22]
- Another year, half of the tributes froze to death at night because they had no firewood. The Capitol audience considered this "anticlimactic" because so many tributes huddled into balls and quietly froze to death.[22]
- A few years prior to the 74th Hunger Games, the victor was a boy who received a training score of three.[31]
- Also a few years prior, a boy from District 6 named Titus went insane and began to eat the tributes that he killed. Eventually, Titus was taken out by an avalanche speculated to be the work of Gamemakers.[32]
- One year, a female tribute dropped her token— a small wooden ball— before the sixty-second countdown ended, setting off the land mines around her platform. She was blown apart and had to be collected in pieces.[33]
- A pack of hideous reptiles once destroyed the Career tributes' food supply.[34]
- Katniss also mentioned another year (possibly the 70th Hunger Games) where the food supply was washed away in a flood caused by the Gamemakers.[34]
Trivia[]
- Only three Hunger Games outright occur during the series: the 10th,[5] 74th,[33] and 75th.[35] Other Games are referenced or explained in passing.
- The one notable exception is the 50th Hunger Games. When Katniss and Peeta view an edited recap of the second Quell, it gets an entire chapter dedicated to describing it in detail.[14]
- The first film briefly depicts the ending of the 73rd Hunger Games on television when Katniss is on the train to the Capitol.[23]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 3
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 9
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 19
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 14
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 6
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 11
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 10
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 20
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 30
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Epilogue
- ↑ MAGS, THE 11TH VICTOR - Capitol Couture
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 12
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Catching Fire, Chapter 14
- ↑ PORTER, THE 38TH VICTOR - Capitol Couture
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 15
- ↑ Game Faces: District 2’s Enobaria - Capitol Couture
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 16
- ↑ Game Faces: District 1’s Cashmere - Capitol Couture
- ↑ AUGUSTUS BRAUN, THE 67TH VICTOR - Capitol Couture
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 24
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 The Hunger Games, Chapter 3
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 The Hunger Games (film)
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 25
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 6
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 27
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Mockingjay, Epilogue
- ↑ Mockingjay, Chapter 26
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 23
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 8
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 10
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 11
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 16
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 19