Writing games are tricks, exercises, things to try to get your writing brain in the mood. I find them useful when a story's giving me trouble - I can't think of a way out of the corner, or I can't think of a corner to get into, or I'm just not feeling in the right mood to write that story - as well as generating new ideas, and just keeping my writing-mind in shape. And on the plus side, they're usually fun to try, and you can end up with the germs of some great little stories.

More numbers games

I fear my ability to come up with snazzy names for these things has failed, today.  Anyhoo, once again, you'll need a die. The number of sides really doesn't matter this time. This one can end up with some hilarious things as you struggle to make something that makes sense.

Roll it once. This is your cycle number. That'll make sense in a minute. Write it down.

Roll the dice a few more times, and write down the numbers. Maybe 5 or 6 rolls all up. If you have a lower cycle number, like 3, roll about ten times. Don't add them, just write down the roll, like 4, 2, 5, 6, 1.

Now, your first sentence has to include the first number you rolled. In my example just above, I rolled four. So my first sentence has to have the number four in it, somehow. Four of something. Or someone calling out the number four. (It's cheating if you write about a bingo game.) Write your sentence.

Your cycle number is how many 'normal' sentences you write before a 'number' sentence comes around. Let's say I rolled a 5 for my cycle number. So I write my first sentence with 'four' in it. I then write five normal sentences. Then my next sentence has to have my next number in it - in this case, 2. Then I write another five normal sentences, and then a sentence with 'five' in it.

Continue with number sentence + normal sentences until you've used up all your numbers.

Variation

More difficult, but more fun (and almost always more hilarious) - have the objects be random as well. As in, four-of-[random object]. You can do this by just using the first thing you look at after the dice roll (open to rorting, though, obviously) or by opening a book to a random page and picking the first noun you find, or using tarot cards, a D&D manual, a box for charades or the 'random article' button on Wikipedia.