Plot Holes In 'The Hunger Games' Fans Couldn't Help But Notice

From Redditor u/CoreyTrevor1:

When Katniss is unspooling the wire down the mountain it suddenly stops unspooling, on account of another tribute holding the wire. She is jerking and tugging on the spool of wire, and it wont budge. But since she is actually holding the spool, it should roll off freely, it wouldn't matter if someone was holding one end down!

From Quora user Paul Robinson:

The Reaping. Lets consider there are around 20000 people in each district, we can say that 10-20% are of reaping age (which is probably optimistic), that gives us 2000-4000 people, on average, there are 3.5 “ballots” per person (1 for each 12 year old, 7 for 18 year olds), that means somewhere between 7000 and 14000 “ballots” - you would need a cement mixer truck to contain that (or even turn it) yet they reach into a glass bowl no larger than goldfish bowl to pick one. My assumption was they take all the ballots, mixed them in their cement mixing truck and then throw a bunch in a bowl for show at the “public” reaping.

From a Redditor :

Does Peta just have some kind of futuristic chameleon paint that becomes whatever color he needs it to be? I mean, when he needs to blend into a tree, he has 200 shades of brown to match the tree exactly. When he needs to blend into a rock, he has 50 shades of grey to match the rock exactly. Where did he get all of this paint?

At one point, we see Peta using his art skills to blend into a rock, since he has suffered a leg wound at the hands of Cato. This seems cool at first, but, when you think about it, it is very illogical. This means that Cato, a ruthless, seasoned, expert killer, stabbed peta IN THE LEG, and then let him limp/ hobble/ crawl away all the way to the river. Cato then let Peta spend 3 hours covering his entire body in paint.

From Redditor u/timisplump:

So they said in the books that if you add your name in the jar more times, then you get extra food. Imagine everyone doubled their name count, or tripled it (or multiplied it by 100). The probability of being chosen would stay the same for everyone and in the process, everyone would be getting 100 times the amount of food. Never made sense to me.

From Redditor u/scartol:

I don’t understand what the Games have to do with keeping the districts from rebelling. If anything, watching some of their children get murdered would seem to increase the likelihood of furious revolt. If spectacle is the point (as in Brave New World), where do gladiator-style deathmatches fit in? If brute force is the purpose (as in 1984), why bother with the elaborate process of drafting kids into postmodern murderball?

From Redditor u/ArgieGrit01:

If you can volunteer as a tribute, then how come nobody used it to cheat and give people food? Say that at the begining of the year district 12 chooses a guy and a girl to compete, so when the sorting comes they volunteer. That way everybody can ask for unlimited amounts of food without the risk of being chosen. Meanwhile, the guys who are going to volunteer can spend the whole year training and eating well.