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Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online

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Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online

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There's a hidden factor at play in this service, which is the bond that we create with one-another when we go through hardships.

For instance, if you endure something that is hard or difficult or exhausting, you develop a closer bond with someone. If the puzzle solving could be social puzzle solving, they may create attraction artificially.

Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online

#5
I question whether enough women will bother going through puzzles in order to find a match. History might prove me wrong, but I feel this will turn the site into even more of a sausage fest than your average OKCupid. Women don't need to look that hard to find a nerd on a dating site.

Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online

#7
Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded. While I doubt that I'd poke around with Mensa-esque puzzles to prove my intellectual worthiness, I do think there needs to be some way to get male and female nerds in the same room with the potential for more than just a keynote speaker.
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