The Pudding Taster and the Virtual Quizmaster (1)

A review of klikthet.nl

"Klikt het?" is Dutch for "Does it click?"

This is a dating site that is set up around a game. To participate in this game, one has to upload 2 pictures (a headshot and a full-body shot), and fill in a questionnaire. The makers say that they'll keep it easy and just give you just a few questions, but "a few" seems to be a very relative term....there were over 30.

Also, some of the questions were a little weird. Like, "what hair colour should your ideal match have?" - the Pudding Taster doesn't have much of a preference, really! Her ideal weight and age had to be specified down to a centimeter and a year, respectively. And leaving it blank was not an option - you can only play if you answer all the questions first.
Then you have to specify, among others, your taste in music and your favorite trademarks. Sadly, some of the Pudding Tasters favorite trademarks were missing - and that includes the Fair Trade label.
Adding something yourself was not an option, but that was for a good reason that will be revealed later.

The weirdest question was what your ideal match should be - single, in a relation, or married. Yes, you read that right - the site allows you to match with someone who is already in a relation or even married.
The Pudding Taster is increasingly led to believe that the makers of dating site questionnaires are very weird people!

Playing the game

The game is simple - you are shown pictures of members and asked questions about them. For example, "how often does this person smoke". You can then choose from 3 possible answers. Giving the right answer will give you 4 to 6 "clicks" (the precise amount differs per question), giving the wrong one will cost you a similar amount. Skipping a question is an option this time, but will cost you 3 points.... er, clicks.
Other questions included what trademark fitted with a person. This explains why you have to choose such things from a limited list, and are not allowed to add new entries. The answers given in the questionnaire are meant to help in composing a multiple-choice quiz for other members.

This quizzing game is regularly interrupted by a different kind of question - two pictures of other members of the desired gender are shown, and you are asked which one you like best. Dragging a heart symbol to one of the pictures might get you in touch with this person - at a cost of 20 clicks. If the other accepts, you become "clicks".

The game is quite addictive, if a little superficial. Are we really supposed to determine people's culinary preferences from their looks? (The Pudding Taster wonders if the people at klikthet.nl cater specifically to people wearing deerstalker hats and smoking pipes. Elementary, my dear Watson!)
Even so, it's one if those games where you keep thinking, "OK, let's play one more round".

The Pudding Taster got a match on Klikthet.nl. He sent her a message, and is still awaiting the response. The drawback here is that you know practically nothing about your match - all you have to go on are two pictures. Even someone's preferred trademarks might have been a conversation starter.

Pudding Judgment: pending.
The concept of this site is very good - play a game and meet potential dates. While on other sites, you hang out waiting for one of your matches to come online, here you spend the waiting time taking quizzes.
Also, the system determines to whom you can speak, although you have some input.
Still, it hasn't given the Pudding Taster a date - or even a communication! Until it does that, it fails as a dating service. Since new matches are given only once every 2 weeks, according to the site itself, the Pudding Taster is giving it some more time.