Why doesn't my bluetooth connect?

I turned on my bluetooth to find another iPod to play a game with, but the iPod will not find each other whether it is in the game or in the settings menu. Is there something that I am missing?

Regarding your recent iPhone review.
You might be interested to know that Find my iPhone only works when you have a MobileMe account which costs $99 a year. Simply having a .Mac account will not provide you the Find My iPhone feature.
The application is also free, something you may want to consider given the amount of time the developer put into the project to provide it as a service to people, it was also launched well before iPhone 3.0.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4562
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