Sunrise on the ReapingSimulator
Play Haymitch's 50th Hunger Games — all 48 tributes, free.
The Second Quarter Quell doubled the tributes. We're the only free BrantSteele alternative that loads the canonical 48-tribute roster from Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel in one click.
How this simulator models the 50th Hunger Games
Quarter Quell Mode runs the doubled reaping through the same engine as a standard Games, scaled up for an arena holding 48 tributes instead of 24.
A reaping built for 48
The Second Quarter Quell doubled the reaping: four tributes from every district instead of two. Quarter Quell Mode loads that exact field — twelve districts of four — and hands it to the engine pre-configured, with district-flavored attributes already switched on. One click from the button above fills all 48 slots so you can go straight to the bloodbath.
What changes at 48 tributes
A larger field reshapes the whole run. The opening Cornucopia bloodbath is twice as crowded and far more lethal; almost no one walks out of it alone, so early alliances carry more weight. The arena also takes more rounds to thin, which means the day and night cycles and the mid-game feast all matter more before a finale is even possible. Expect longer games and a higher body count than a standard 24-tribute simulation.
District Mode and the Career imbalance
With District Mode on, all four tributes from a district inherit that district's edge — so the Career districts (1, 2, and 4) field a deeper, deadlier pack than they ever could in a 24-tribute game. That lopsided start is exactly the problem the outsider alliance forms to fight in the novel, and you can watch the same pressure play out in the numbers: a stacked pack at the Cornucopia versus everyone else trying to survive long enough to even the odds.
It re-rolls the Quell — it doesn't replay the book
This is a probability sandbox, not a recreation of the novel's story. The engine has no idea who is “supposed” to win — Haymitch is just one name among 48, and most runs end nothing like the book does. That is the point: you are re-rolling the 50th Games to see how else it could have gone, not watching a fixed retelling.
The 48 Tributes of the 50th Hunger Games
For the Second Quarter Quell, every district sent four tributes — two boys and two girls — instead of the usual two. Below is the canonical roster as named in Suzanne Collins' novel.
These are AI-generated portraits used inside our simulator for in-game immersion only — district-flavored sketches, not canonical likenesses. The film's official visuals are owned by Lionsgate and will be unveiled with the November 20, 2026 release.
Full Canonical Roster
Every named tribute from the novel, grouped by district.
District 1 · Luxury
Career- Panache Barker · MKilled by one of Maysilee's poisonous darts.
- Silka Sharp · FKilled when Haymitch's axe ricocheted off the arena forcefield.
- Loupe · M
- Carat · F
District 2 · Masonry
Career- Alpheus · M
- Camilla · F
- Janus · M
- Nona · F
District 3 · Technology
- Ampert Latier · MNewcomerBeetee's 12-year-old son. Killed by squirrel mutts while sabotaging the arena.
- Dio · FNewcomer
- Lect · MNewcomer
- Coil · FNewcomer
District 4 · Fishing
Career- Urchin · M
- Barba · F
- Angler · M
- Maritte · F
District 5 · Power
- Hychel · M
- Anion · F
- Fisser · M
- Potena · F
District 6 · Transportation
- Miles · M
- Wellie · FNewcomerA sickly tribute Haymitch saves and hides in a tree. Intended to be Haymitch's chosen victor.
- Atread · M
- Velo · F
District 7 · Lumber
- Bircher · M
- Autumn · F
- Heartwood · M
- Ringina · FNewcomerPart of the Newcomer alliance with Haymitch and Ampert.
District 8 · Textiles
- Wefton · M
- Notion · F
- Ripman · M
- Alawna · F
District 9 · Grain
- Ryan · MNewcomerDistrict 9 tributes' flower tokens were laced with explosives by Beetee.
- Kerna · FNewcomer
- Clayton · MNewcomer
- Midge · FNewcomer
District 10 · Livestock
- Buck · M
- Lannie · F
- Stamp · M
- Peeler · F
District 11 · Agriculture
- Hull · M
- Chicory · F
- Tile · M
- Blossom · F
District 12 · Coal Mining
- Wyatt Callow · MNewcomerA self-taught oddsmaker who calculates tribute survival odds.
- Maysilee Donner · FNewcomerTown girl, future owner of the mockingjay pin. Killed by pink mutt birds.
- Haymitch Abernathy · MNewcomerSubstituted in after Woodbine Chance was shot mid-reaping. Wins the 50th Games.
- Louella McCoy · FNewcomerKilled in a chariot crash during the Tribute Parade. Body double "Lou Lou" took her place.
The Sunrise on the Reaping Movie
Lionsgate's sixth Hunger Games film — Francis Lawrence directs a young Haymitch Abernathy through the bloodiest Quarter Quell in Panem's history.
Official poster · © Lionsgate
Official trailer · © Lionsgate
Sunrise on the Reaping Cast
The full ensemble announced by Lionsgate.
Sunrise on the Reaping Plot Summary
What happens in Sunrise on the Reaping — the spoiler-free overview, with full ending available behind a click.
Sunrise on the Reaping is Suzanne Collins' 2025 prequel, set 24 years before Katniss volunteers in District 12. It follows a 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy through the 50th Hunger Games — the Second Quarter Quell, the year the Capitol doubled the reaping and pulled 48 children into the arena instead of 24. Haymitch is reaped on his own birthday, torn from the girl he loves and shipped to the Capitol with three other District 12 tributes. The book is the story of how he won, what that victory cost the people he loved, and why the broken, hard-drinking Haymitch who later mentors Katniss is the man she meets.
Original premise summary · the novel and its characters are © Suzanne Collins / Scholastic Press, 2025
District 12, the morning of the reaping
Haymitch Abernathy is 16 — and the reaping falls on his birthday. He brews moonshine to keep his mother and younger brother Sid fed, and slips into the woods to meet Lenore Dove Baird, a Covey girl whose family was forced to settle in District 12. Lenore Dove gifts Haymitch a flint striker shaped like a bird merged with a snake — a quiet act of defiance that will haunt every page that follows.
A Quarter Quell with double the tributes
The 50th Games is the Second Quarter Quell. Per the card President Snow reads aloud, each district must send four tributes instead of two — 48 children to the arena, "as a reminder that two rebels died for every Capitol citizen." It is the deadliest setup in the history of the Games.
The Newcomers vs. the Careers
In training, Haymitch falls in with Maysilee Donner, the oddsmaker Wyatt Callow, and a tiny 12-year-old from District 3 named Ampert — Beetee Latier's son, reaped to punish his father's rebellion. The four form the Newcomers, the first known alliance to challenge the Career pack from the inside.
A win that costs everything
Haymitch wins. But what the Capitol does to the people who loved him — and what he learns about the propaganda machine that runs Panem — is the part of his story Katniss never knew, and the reason a sober Haymitch could never have mentored her.
5 Big Reveals From the Book
Sunrise on the Reaping answers questions Hunger Games fans have been asking for fifteen years. Tap each to expand.
Lenore Dove Baird raised geese in District 12, and used them as a metaphor for their love. Before Haymitch left for the arena she told him, "Just like my geese, I mate for life. And then some. Forever." In the epilogue Haymitch reveals that Katniss bringing him goose eggs after the war is what finally lets him grieve.
Sunrise Characters & Their Trilogy Echoes
Every major Sunrise tribute maps onto a Mockingjay-era character. Suzanne Collins built the prequel as a mirror, not a sequel.
Haymitch first sees Katniss with her braided hair and is hit by how much she looks like Louella. The nickname "sweetheart" carries over without him meaning to.
A sharp-tongued ally Haymitch initially resents and eventually loves like a sister — the same arc Katniss walks with Johanna in Mockingjay.
Ampert is Beetee's 12-year-old son: brilliant, technically gifted, willing to die to end the Games. His death cracks Haymitch open the way Rue's death cracks Katniss.
A District 1 Career who reads as cruel but is, in the end, another child the Capitol fed into the meat grinder. Haymitch reaches the same realization Katniss does at the finale.
A Covey girl whose seditious songs echo Lucy Gray's. The book dances around whether Lucy Gray is her grandmother without ever giving a straight answer.
Same character, decades earlier — already filming with a propagandist's eye and already planting seeds of rebellion. Sunrise shows the through-line from cameraman to Gamemaker.
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