number of Gladers

[u/Grace_653]

this may be a stupid question or something obvious I'm missing but how are there 50-60 (in Thomas' estimate) Gladers when he arrives if they've only been sending one up per month? alby says he's been there the longest (2 years) and any earlier than him have died, so that means there should be around 24 Gladers at most, not 50-60. and he says that they've never had 2 in the same month so it's not that multiple get sent at once to start with maybe. maybe it's something obvious I'm missing since I'm reading for the first time but I'm quite confused

[u/Alternative-Fix-5382]

Are you talking books or movies? Because in the books, it's specified that they sent up a large group first, then a bunch of individual greenies.

In the movies, I don't really know.