There's always more to the game than merely playing by the rules; that's why Career districts win the Hunger Games so often. Even for them, however, nothing is ever guaranteed.

In silence, the first tick of the clock rings out. Dawn rises, but the Hunger Games steadily grind onward. The tributes stand in preparation for the journey ahead, and Seneca Crane stretches out his hand. The gears slip forward and Gadget knows that the first hour is here.

A work by Enobaria Gould, featuring every victor of the Hunger Games.

For the 150th Hunger Games, the Reaping age bracket is upped to ages 16-21. The Head Gamemaker decides to use this opportunity to find her daughter Tatiana a spouse and promises the Victor of the Games Tati's hand in marriage. However, Tati is hiding a very personal secret that could make everything difficult.

What would happen if Johanna had a girlfriend from district 4? another victor? And a kid in their care?

A pre-reaping one night stand between Clove and Cato leads to unexpected consequences that drastically alter the course of the seventy-fourth hunger games, quarter quell, and subsequent rebellion.

"Are there any volunteers?" Pomponia said, the boredom in her voice obvious. She knew, from her years of being the escort for District Six, that there wouldn't be. She was wrong. "I volunteer." Iris would be the only one to choose her fate. **** She was more than just a Morphling, once.

Hailing from District Seven, Lamina and Treech are reaped for the 10th Annual Hunger Games. Both try to be each other's ally, while also coming to terms with what they'll face in the arena. Although they try to stay alive in the Games on their own terms, the odds were never in their favor. Alternating drabbles about Lamina and Treech. {10x100} {Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes}

Rather then being reaped from previous victors for the second quarter quell tributes are reaped from victors families. To remind the districts that capitol families were torn apart by the rebellion. This results in Haymitch and Katniss having to mentor Prim and one of Peeta's brothers during the 75th hunger games!

It is the year of the 100th Hunger Games and the Quarter Quell demands 48 Tributes are chosen and randomly paired up. Crixus is a boy from District 2 who is willing to give up his life to make sure his sister wins the Hunger Games. Akhal is a girl from District 10 with no loyalties to anyone in the Arena but herself. They find themselves paired up, their lives connected.

SEQUEL TO BY YOUR SIDE! Viva le revolution. Plucked from the arena, Katniss must face District 13 and her own personal worst nightmare.

It's the 25th Annual Hunger Games, the First Quarter Quell. And the districts have to choose the tributes this year. But 18-year-old District 9 citizen Emmer Skadsen refuses to fall prey to the Capital's Plan to divide the districts from within. He volunteers as a tribute, taking the burden away from his people. With his partner, he learns from a past victor how to win the Games.

Lucy Gray Baird is on the run. Away from 12, away from Snow, away from the life she once had. But what happens when she reunites with an all too familiar face?

Raven just wants to take care of her family, but on her last Reaping, her name is called. This is the story of her Games, and the love she finds. This story will start with her Games and continue through the Hunger Games trilogy. HaymitchxOC

Lost to history, we visit the birth of the Hunger Games: Hope will be vanquished as children are ripped from their homes and forced into an Arena where only one will be left standing. Districts in disarray as the Capitol reaches out to snatch complete control of Panem- the iron fist beneath a silken glove. Long live the Capitol and Happy Hunger Games. SYOT open.

Sequel to Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: What if Lucy Gray hadn't left him, and this time Coriolanus wouldn't draw the wrong conclusions? Could the story change 65 years later, or would it still have the same ending? Coryo Redemption Arc, Fix-It Fanfic, Alternative Ending (translated from German)

The 114th Hunger Games are fast approaching. Even in death, no one can escape the games, especially not the tributes that are about to enter the arena. The Victors know that better than anyone, but the game they play is almost as dangerous. The sun is rising. Who will be left once the day dawns? (SYOT open)

Amber Clark is resourceful, kind, family-orientated, and probably cursed. When she's chosen to represent District Seven in the 76th Hunger Games, she plans to lay low and wait out the chaos, but some mysterious Career Tributes and their impulsive actions ignore this wish and put her right in the middle of Panem's biggest drama instead.

Effie Trinket, just another Capitol puppet. The Quarter Quell begins and it suddenly shows that Effie isn't as obsessed with the Capitol as it seemed. The revolution gets going and Effie, who came closer to Haymitch than she would have ever expected, has to figure out where her loyalties lie. And her time is running out.

Resurrection Games for Tributes 15-18

{SYOT CLOSED} The 25th Hunger Games was the first Quarter Quell, and the change to the games was that the tributes were voted in by their districts. Your tribute was voted in. Can they win? [24/24 ALIVE]

(In progress) It's the 27th Annual Hunger Games and Coriolanus Snow, Vice President of Panem, has his work cut out for him. With the President of District 13 and a mysterious rebel group known as Project Phoenix keeping him on his toes, this is shaping up to be a hell of a year. Part of the Stained Silver Verse. SYOT closed, but reviews are appreciated!

There are always those that are burdened with memories. They can never forget those that are gone. But even if they aren't ready, the cycle is about to start all over again. The 124th Hunger Games is just around the corner, and there's no telling what that could mean for Panem. [odwh sequel]

(Rewrite of the Blaine Abernathy Series.) Blaine is the daughter of Haymitch Abernathy and the 69th Hunger Game victor. Can she help Katniss and Peeta as their mentor during the Games, or will she and Haymitch be the only district twelve's victors?

Peeta Mellark was never reaped for the 74th Hunger Games. He cursed himself for never confessing his love to Katniss before she volunteered for her sister. All hope is lost as the odds clearly aren’t in his favor. Or maybe they were as he was reaped for the 76th Hunger Games, with his lover as his mentor.