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Women will receive padlocks when they arrive at Red Ox and men will get keys.

Attendees will attempt to match the locks and keys.

After all, it was his event that began the start of their new life.

Whether youre looking for love or just a good time with some great people, try a Lock and Key Event. With Lock and Key events, you can talk in person, read body language and can immediately tell if there is chemistry or not without having to email or chat back and forth a bunch of times, Reich says.

The latest Orlando club to try it out, appropriately enough, is the Icebar.

Last year, the holiday was overshadowed by heavy amounts of snowfall, dampening its spirit, said Lori Crook, event coordinator of Baltimore's Lock and Key events.

Orlando usually winds up in the middle tier of such lists, as it did in a recent story measuring life in general and love in particular for solo souls in 40 American cities.

We dropped the ball elsewhere, however, and wound up sneaking into the roster at a modest 27th overall.

I know of several people who have asked another attendee out on a date who they met at one of my events, Reich says.

Some attendees have married someone they met at a Lock and Key event in other regions, but not Detroit yet.

The latest face-to-face dating service fad to turn up in Orlando: Lock and Key Events (lockandkeyevents.com).

Singles pay a cover charge to meet up in a club where each male gets a key and each woman gets a lock to wear around her neck. The ostensible object of the game is to match them up, but its all just a clever icebreaker.