So let's say we live in a world where the norm is once a year we send off two children to certain doom! Also, thank the capital for passing the law we have all wanted Halloween every day! Today we aren't talking about the capitals choice in...style. Any of their super high-tech equipment: no today we are talking about the odds being ever in YOUR favor. Yet in reality, odds have jack shit to do with luck. They have to do with MATH. Yes, we all love math. When they say this it's not a nicer way of saying "go break a leg kid." It's telling you how to actually survive the games. You actually CAN control if the odds are EVER in your favor. Make it anything BUT a matter of luck.

Weather you are the soul survivor or dead on the first day are entirely dependent on if you've made those odds 1/24 in your favor. By the end of this article, you will be able to win the hunger games. Not because of speed, or skill, or... finger painting skills, but through the power of probability. It's like money ball but instead of money, you're betting your life.

So let's say you wanna survive the hunger games. Step one to insure you live 100% of the time... DO NOT VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE.

Say you gotta play the hero, time to move quickly. At the start there are 24 other unfortunate souls. 2 from each of the 12 districts. Theoretically, your odds are 1 in 24 to start. Let's be honest. You aren't taking those odds in Vegas. Now not all tributes are built fair. Some girl like Rue doesn't have the probability against a dude built like me. Or a career. That's WRONG, however. Statistically, in the hunger games, it's shown your odds are the same no matter race, age, gender or district. So now you're in the capital. What do you do? Mistake 1 is stacking the odds before the game. You have 7 days to pregame. not boozing either.

Training and eating. Carboload. This isn't the time to work on that thigh gap, it's time to add some lbs. You don't know the arena, but you do know there may not be food for quite some time. You'll be burning 2000-2400 calories a day gender dependent. Put on 5 lbs extra lbs of fat. This gives you an extra 18,000 calories to survive on. Or 8 days before your body starts shutting down from starvation. Which probably won't make it the whole games but it helps. We know the 74th games (movie 1) was 18 days long. Meaning you could've survived almost half of it on nothing. That same games 11 of 24 tributes died trying to grab supplies and food.

Which increases your odds OFF THE BAT. Next step is using your training time well and none of us are mastering a bow in 72 hours. Use the skills that result in the highest survival rate. Based on the 27 known winners from the universe, 11 won because of their passive survival skills. Essentially not STARVING TO DEATH. This makes your first stop on the training nonpoisonous insects, plants, and fire starting. Also of those 11 survivalist victors most won from hiding most if not ALL of the games. So Camo, ropes courses, and tree climbing ain't a bad idea, boss.

Time to talk some weapons as is it is a MURDER ARENA. Of the 27 known victors 8 of them won due to the use of blades. A reliable weapon I would say. That's like 30 percent of the total winners. Honestly, none of us will be sword masters in a week, so using a knife would be your best bet.

If not just for combat than for utility. It's also the weapon most likely to appear in the games. Using blades nearly triples your chances that

ANY weapon you come across will be a weapon you can use. Use these tips and you may end up surviving the games and not showing up in the sky at night!

May the odds be ever in your favor.