Secret Sound guesses – August
Tuesday 1 August 

• Typewriter
• Machine dispensing a parking ticket at a parking lot 
• Zippo lighter 
• Release latch on a washing machine
• Locking a bakkie
• Table tennis ball being served 

Wednesday 2 August 

• When cashiers open coin bags at the till 
• Pop up bouncing ball
• Ticket tape machine
• Arm of a record player
• Clip of an old school case
• (no guess)

Thursday 3 August 

• Car key being flicked open
• Wheel on a computer mouse being moved
• Kid’s flipper toy
• The click of a home alarm beam
• Cash register clip in the tray
• Stapler

Friday 4 August 

• Taking the safety latch off a gun
• Glockenspiel
• Snapping of a match stick
• Cracking open a nut 
• Drop of coffee in a percolator 
• (no guess)

Monday 7 August 

• Lid of a melrose jar popping
• Mousetrap clipping closed
• Replacing the water bottle on a dispenser 
• Old fashioned camera taking a picture 
• Clip on the lid of a coffee tumbler 
• Pressing a tablet out of a capsule pack 

Tuesday 8 August 

• Opening an old cold-drink can
• Drop of water on a metal sink
• (no guess)
• Candle lighter
• Taking a picture with a zoom lens camera
• Pedal bin 

Thursday 10 August

• Closing the valve on an air mattress 
• The paper clicking through an old printer 
• Rubik’s cube
• Sand running through and old hourglass 
• Cricket ball hitting a wicket
• A button being pushed on a keyboard 

Friday 11 August

• Lever arch file releasing pages
• Old school price gun
• Boilermaker starting a flame 
• Plugging a phone charger into a two point plug
• A security lock closing on a gate
• The teat of a baby bottle being pulled through and twisted on  

Monday 14 August

• Tapping your fingers on a table
• Conductor’s ticket punch
• Adjusting the length on crutches
• Dancer’s castanets
• Gas hob switching on
• Snapping a piece of biltong

Tuesday 15 August

• Cellphone screen being turned off
• Photo being taken in an old photo booth
• Biscuit cutting machine
• Crushing a garlic clove 
• Cutting an electric wire
• Old slide projector 

Wednesday 16 August

• (no guess)
• Seat-belt on a airplane 
• Lighter
• Opening a laptop
• Ceiling fan spring being pulled 
• Wooden frog musical instrument

Thursday 17 August 

• Pressure release button on a blood pressure test device 
• Musical toy button
• Biltong packet sealer’s arm
• Cigarette lighter
• Sound of a rowing oar touching water
• Ratchet mechanism of a tie down strap 

Friday 18 August 

• Fish paste bottle popping 
• Button at the back of a fan
• Stamp at the police station
• Pet flap on a door
• Bobbin clicking on a sewing machine
• When you maneuver the car seat 

Monday 21 August

• Clicking sound of an eye test device at an optometrist
  
• Turnstile
• Pedal on a dustbin
• Clicking cycle shoes into the pedal
• Car key with a button that flicks out the key
• Closing the lid on a coffee pot

Tuesday 22 August

• DSTV explorer remote middle button being pushed 
• Old price gun
• Opening a metal lid on cold drink bottle
• Stapler
• Hosepipe connecting to a tap
• Lever on a shotgun 

Wednesday 23 August

• Handcuffs opening 
• Taking a phone of the receiver
• The sound of an egg hatching 
• View-master button being pushed 
• An electric fence sparking if touched 
• Shaking coffee grounds in a glass bottle 

Thursday 24 August

• Race horse gate opening 
• Putting a butane gas bottle in a gas cooker 
• Closing a DVD box
• Filter of an Espresso machine clipping in
• Tin being opened with a key that comes with the tin
• A safety from a fire extinguisher 

Friday 25 August

• Bottle cap landing on a counter
• Pin from a grenade
• Flicking bank cards together 
• Umbrella opening 
• Pinball machine lever
• Glow-stick snapping 

Monday 28 August

• Knitting needles
• Clip of a watchstrap 
• Stapler
• Opening a safe by turning the dial
• Someone stepping on twigs and leaves 
• Fridge door being closed 

Tuesday 29 August 

• Foot switch on a vacuum cleaner
• Button on a handbrake 
• Welding torch igniter 
• (no guess)
• Staple remover 
• Seat-belt ejecting 

Wednesday 30 August 

• Opening a top loading CD player
• Power failure and all the switches shut down
• Way finder that blind people use 
• Ping pong 
• (no guess)
• Someone playing the drums in a band

Thursday 31 August

• Spring door of a bathroom cabinet closing 
• Desktop recycle bin emptying sound on a windows computer
• Manual clicker counter 
• Clicker for dog training
• Automatic washing machine coming to the end of a cycle 
• Removing the plastic wrapping on a bunch of flowers