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Reaping
The Hunger Games #1. A weighted lottery written as tally marks: twelve rows, each group of marks is one person and each mark one more entry of that name in the draw. Hunger rises row by row, and the hungrier a person is, the more entries they carry. The marks arrive one by one until the page is full, then a pointer samples uniformly from every mark on the page, slowing down until it lands; two names are circled in ember and a new season begins.