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Challenge Details
Opening Lines
A Member Challenge using the Expert Editing rules.

Description
Title your entry with the opening line from any work of fiction.

Submission Dates:
  Jan 30 2015 - Feb 5 2015

Voting Dates:
  Feb 6 2015 - Feb 12 2015

Submissions: 53
Disqualifications: 0
Votes: 3,692
Comments: 218

Average Score: 5.81392
Highest Score: 6.9722
Median Score: 5.8098
Lowest Score: 4.75
Results for Opening Lines:
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Challenge Results for Opening Lines
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God - The Name of The Rose, Umberto Eco
by Mond

11th place with an
average vote of 6.2857

Views: 603 (167 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.731
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.614
Once upon a time..(a piece of wood)
by Sisto

12th place with an
average vote of 6.2817

Views: 642 (162 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.852
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.546
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall."
by tvsometime

13th place with an
average vote of 6.1690

Views: 752 (145 during voting)
Votes: 71
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.037
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.250
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
by wildiris

14th place with an
average vote of 6.1571

Views: 629 (139 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.667
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.465
Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person
by vawendy

15th place with an
average vote of 6.1515

Views: 694 (182 during voting)
Votes: 66
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.875
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.310
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard...
by insteps

16th place with an
average vote of 6.1111

Views: 670 (147 during voting)
Votes: 72
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.074
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.133
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. - "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
by Alain

17th place with an
average vote of 6.0857

Views: 578 (149 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.808
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.250
"It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times"
by illini75

18th place with an
average vote of 6.0725

Views: 668 (148 during voting)
Votes: 69
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.962
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.140
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, .....
by PaulFrocchi

19th place with an
average vote of 6.0714

Views: 539 (151 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 6.259
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 5.954
It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
by giantmike

20th place with an
average vote of 6.0429

Views: 519 (152 during voting)
Votes: 70
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Your Comment: N/A

Average Vote (Participants): 5.640
Average Vote (Non-Participants): 6.267
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