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