After some playing around with the client, I finally got it to connect.

Windows client here: http://duckduckcoin.com/

• Create a shortcut to duckduckcoin-qt.
• Right click the shortcut and click properties
• In the Target box, add the following on the end: -addnode=23.227.161.68:12121
• Target of the shortcut should look something like this: C:\Pathtoyourclient\duckduckcoin-qt.exe -addnode=23.227.161.68:12121
• Run the shortcut. It should start syncing and now it has cached the peers so you should be good to go without the shortcut.