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Shanel asked this question about The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0):

Coriolanus Snow was 18 during the 10th Hunger Games in this book. Katniss doesn’t come along until the 74th Hunger Games, making Snow 82 years old. Am I correct in thinking that? (This whole book I didn’t think it was about the ACTUAL President Snow because the dates didn’t seem to add up.)

Chiara Why would there be two games in a Quarter Quell year? It’s not called ## “annual” Hunger Games because it’s catchy. The QQ is a “special edition” beca…moreWhy would there be two games in a Quarter Quell year? It’s not called ## “annual” Hunger Games because it’s catchy. The QQ is a “special edition” because of the jubilee and at the 2nd Quarter Quell there was double the amount of tributes but no where is it stated that there’s 2 games in one year. Snow is 18 during the 10th games, in mockingjay Finnick jokes “welcome to the 76th Hunger Games” so that’s 66 years late, making snow (18+66) 84 years old. Also in SOTR (50th games) they state "For once, despite his cosmetic treatments, he looks his fifty-eight years." 58+26 is still 84. So in the “first” Hunger games book he’s 74+8 he’s 82.(less)

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