For her part, Katniss thinks she might have a chance to win because she???s been hunting squirrels to feed her family and, as she puts it to Gale, ???I am smart, you know.??? She has reason to think intelligence is an asset, as most everyone in the big city where the Games are produced (the studio simulates a woodsy terrain, wildfires, and beasts to attack contestants on cue) is manifestly stupid: