Secret Sound

The Tri-County Pumps Secret Sound has been SOLVED!

Congratulations to Rachel of Waynesboro, PA, who provided the correct 11-word answer:

“CRUSHING DRY PASTA IN A PLASTIC BOWL WITH A WOODEN PESTLE”

After kicking off at $2500, the jackpot grew by $25 with each incorrect guess from caller 9 in the 7am, 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm hours.  You can check out all the incorrect guesses below, which were posted at the end of each contest day.

Daily Clues:  Weekday mornings at around 8:20, Tri-County Pumps‘ Billy Griffith shared a helpful daily clue that was then re-shared at various random times throughout that day.  And beginning Fri. 5/17, members of the WFRE Country Club received a BONUS CLUE each Friday afternoon during contesting.

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Click below to download & read the official contest rules:

Secret_Sound_Spring_2024_Official_Rules

INCORRECT GUESSES:

Week 1 (Beginning May 6 2024)

Ripping tape off a box.

Ice scoop digging into an ice big three times.

Putting a straw in a cup full of ice.

A metal rake scraping gravel.

Walking in snow.

Pushing cans of soda down into a cooler full of ice.

Straw going into chipped ice.

Pulling duct tape out three times.

A copy machine.

Stomping on a cardboard box three times to smash and recycle.

Smashing three bags of ramen noodles to make Asian noodle salad.

Shoveling dirt and rocks.

Sticking an ice cube inside of an ice container and breaking the ice up.

Using an old fashioned hand stamp to stamp a stamp on an envelope.

Crunching peanuts in a nutcracker.

Pulling packaging tape.

A nail gun nailing up some kind of material on a wall.

Scooping three scoops of ice out of a metal ice cooler.

Taking masking tape from one end of a box to the other.

Taking a plastic scoop and pushing it in an ice bucket three times.

Crushing ice in an old timey ice cream maker to make strawberry ice cream.

Scooping ice out of a cooler three times with a cup.

Digging in the sand with a small shovel three times looking for dinosaur fossils.

Someone opening up a garbage bag and shaking it out 3 times.

Shooting a nail gun three times.

Using a knife to open an Amazon gift box.

Three solo cups on the floor and crushing each of them.

Using an ice pick and chipping at ice three times.

Scooping rice.

Tape being pulled out of a tape dispenser. 

Week 2 (Beginning May 13 2024)

Someone scooping ice from an ice machine.

Scooping crushed ice from a cooler three times with a scoop.

Rapidly removing facial tissues from a tissue box.

Removing hair from the skin three times.

A ketchup squeeze bottle.

Beating a bag of ice against a counter to break up the ice.

A page of a magazine being torn out against a ruler.

Crushing a bag of potato chips three times with your fist.

Stomping on gravel.

Smashing three soda cans with a can crusher.

Taking a cup and scooping ice out of an ice bin with the cup.

Scooping ice out of a cooler for three Orange Crush sodas.

Crushing aluminum cans with your foot to take to recycling.

Someone crushing three aluminum cans on the ground with their foot.

A multiload can-crusher crushing three crush orange soda plastic bottles.

Scraping ice from a freezer three times using an ice scoop.

A can crusher that holds several cans at one time crushing three crush orange soda cans to put in a recycle bin.

Someone walking through snow and slush and shoveling it up.

Piece of fruit being crushed by an orange crusher.

The sound of a vibraslap instrument used in the REM song orange crush.

Crushing up ice in a snow cone maker and making orange snowballs.

Putting three cans of orange crush soda into an ice cooler.

Someone putting three cans into a metal shredder.

Taking a can of spray and spraying it over and over.

Lining up aluminum soda cans and crushing them.

Crushing three soda cans with your foot when they are empty.

Smashing up leaves.

Crushing up an empty soda can to put in the recycling.

Crushing a bag of potato chips.

Brad Paisley crushing three empty Bud Light cans with his foot.

Week 3 (Beginning May 20 2024)

Military rifle exercise called left shoulder arm from right shoulder arm.

Putting three bottles of orange crush into a cooler of ice.

Crushing three aluminum cans one at a time with your foot.

Using a kitchen aid blender pushing the pulse button three times crushing the ice, making a frozen orange crush drink.

A cash register.

Ripping off surgical tape.

Crushing and spreading orange crush plastic bottle then pulling open the crusher “redalyn” machine.

Taking a plastic spoon out of your snowball and chopping it three times.

Crushing three plastic cups, one at a time with your foot.

Crushing three aluminum cans by stomping on them with your foot.

Shoving three cans of orange crush into a blue igloo cooler.

Crushing plastic water bottles before placing them in the recycling bin.

Opening a bag of chips crushing them into a plastic bowl.

Three cans of beer being put into a cooler of ice.

Somebody getting their bowl cut fixed with scissors three times.

Using a ice scooper to scoop out big chunks of ice from a ice machine.

Walking out of a sand trap with golf shoes out onto the pavement.

Dumping crushed ice into a plastic bowl with an ice scoop.

Pushing three cans of orange crush soda into a bowl of ice.

Taking three scoops of crushed ice and putting them into a large bowl.

Someone scraping ice.

Putting coins in a parking meter and turning the handle three times.

Marching soldiers.

Opening a bottle of orange crush and disposing the plastic bottle.

Breaking ice cubes into a plastic bowl and crushing them up.

Scooping crushed ice out of a large plastic bowl three times.

Crushing three plastic bowls one at a time with your foot.

Scooping ice three times from an ice machine into a bowl.

Refrigerator ice dispenser dispensing crushed ice into a plastic bowl.

Week 4 (Beginning May 28 2024)

Crushed ice dropping from an ice maker into a plastic bowl.

Pouring potato chips into a medium plastic bowl and crushing them.

Popcorn in a plastic bowl with three shakes.

Placing three soda cans in a pink bowl of crushed ice.

Three turns on a pepper grinder mill.

A electric can crusher crushing three empty aluminum orange crush soda cans.

Placing three beers in a plastic bowl full of crushed ice.

Crushing up baked chips in a plastic bowl with a mallet.

Scooping three large scoops of crushed ice out of a plastic bowl.

Crushing hot cheetos in a plastic bowl and scooping it up.

Putting three bottles of orange crush into a blue plastic bowl of ice.

Crushing dry ice in a plastic bowl with a meat tenderizer.

Scooping into a plastic bowl of dry beans.

Dumping three scoops of crushed ice into a plastic bowl.

Crushing dried bagel chips three times with a medium plastic bowl.

Crushing dry ice in a plastic bowl with a meat tenderizer.

Crushing dry ice and dumping it into a medium plastic bowl.

Dumping three scoops of crushed ice into a plastic bowl.

Taking a scoop bringing it in and out of a container holding cereal and putting it in a bowl.

Pour raw pasta in pan crushing hot pepper into plastic bowl.

Crushing rotini noodles three times in a plastic bowl.

Crushing dry rotini pasta and dumping it into a plastic bowl.

Tossing a bowl of uncooked noodles in the air three times.

Crushing up uncooked pasta inside of a plastic bowl.

Week 5 (Beginning June 3 2024)

Pouring medium size dry pasta into a plastic colander bowl.

Crushing dry rotini noodles in a plastic bowl with a pestle.

Taking 3 scoops of crushed noodles and putting them into a bowl of hot water.

Crushing dry spiral pasta 3 times with a blue plastic bowl.

Crushing walnuts with a hand crank walnut nut cracker cranking it and stopping it 3 times.

Taking 3 scoops of crushed ice and putting it into a large plastic bowl of water.