Secret Sound Guesses – February
Thursday 1 February
- Dominoes standing up and then falling over
- Putting paper through a shredder
- Putting a pot on the stove when there’s water underneath
Friday 2 February
- Bubble wrap being popped
- A block and chain
- Pasta rolling through a pasta machine
Monday 5 February
- Cutting through a watermelon with a knife
- A Yankee pump action screwdriver
- Something falling out of a vending machine
Tuesday 6 February
- A wall-mounted manual coffee grinder
- Shuffling dominoes
- Pushing the button on a vape or e-sigarette
Wednesday 7 February
- Putting a bag of groceries down on a counter
- A pestle and mortar
- The sound of grinding glass
Thursday 8 February
- A comb-binder for binding books
- A knife cutting through vegetables on a chopping board
- When a tree falls after chopping it down
- Rubbing two stones together
Friday 9 February
- Pulling on the plastic packaging inside a cereal box
- A ring-binder machine
- Unwrapping, biting and chewing a Crunchy chocolate
- Riffling a deck of playing cards
Monday 12 February
- The crackling of burning wood on a braai fire
- Sucking the last bit of cool-drink in a can through a straw
- Dragging a suitcase with wheels
- Tearing cling film off from the roll
Tuesday 13 February
- An old manual credit card machine
- A metal chain being put on the ground
- Ice cubes into cold water
- Himalayan pink salt grinder
Wednesday 14 February
- Closing up a box with box tape
- Unfolding the silver sunshield for the windscreen of your car
- A Venetian blind pulled up or let down
Thursday 15 February
- Letting pages run through your fingers
- Ice crushing from an ice dispenser
- Cutting through paper with scissors
Friday 16 February
- A combine harvester
- Turning the lever on a gum-ball machine
- A packet of noodles being crushed
Monday 19 February
- The plastic bag dispenser for fruit and veggies
- Coal briquettes being dispensed from the bag
- Sharpening a knife on a stone
- Crushing salt and coriander in a pestle and mortar
Tuesday 20 February
- Wiggling ice cubes out of a tray
- A pestle and mortar
- An emergency tool bag pulled out the boot of a Hyundai Tuscon
- Cutting celery ribs on a wooden board
Wednesday 21 February
- The wheels of a skateboard
- Packing billiard balls in the triangle and dropping the 8-ball in
- Dropping venetian blinds fast
Thursday 22 February
- Cutting through an onion on a wooden block
- Cutting through a slice of toast
- Removing a pot plant from its pot
Friday 23 February
- A packet of nuts and bolts emptied onto a table
- Crumpling up an envelope that’s been opened
- Opening and unrolling a roll of tin foil
Monday 26 February
- The sound of someone getting out of a car
- Sizzling sound of meat on the braai
- Ice being crushed by an ice pick
- Ice cubes being dropped into a glass
- The sound you hear in between songs on a record
- The balls being released from inside a pool table
Tuesday 27 February
- Pushing a potato through a chip cutting machine
- Putting ice blocks into a glass
- Putting crushed ice into a glass
- The needle on a record when the record stops
Wednesday 28 February
- A wooden roller-top desk being closed
- A hand towel dispenser
- A manual potato masher being pushed down