It has been bamboozling, frustrating and downright infuriating the people of York and North Yorkshire since January.
Just what is the YorkMix Sound?
There have been hundreds of guesses since we launched the mystery noise competition on the Breakfast Club shortly after Christmas. All of them have been wrong… until today.
Listen to the winning moment
Among the guesses – removing a plastic cover on a ready meal, a manual onion chopper, a stadium turnstile and a dog snoring.
All wrong.
Then up stepped Caroline this morning (Tuesday). She called into the show, hosted by Laura Castle and Leigh Nicholson, while on her way to work at North Duffield Primary School.
A seasoned player of the game, she said she was hopeful rather than confident.
Her guess… turning the thermostat valve on a radiator. “I turn it up, my husband turns it down!”
There was a long drumroll – and then pandemonium broke out as Caroline was named our winner.
“I never thought it’d ever get guessed. And I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it,” Caroline said.
Laura told her: “Not only have you won £1,000, but you’ve won the admiration of of the whole of North Yorkshire for just getting this over and done with to be honest, Caroline!”
Caroline, who has two children, said the family were going on holiday later this year and the money would “go some way to it, so that’s amazing”.
So what happens now? Well, a fantastic new feature is coming to Breakfast soon… so listen to this space!