Play has intrigued many psychologists and pedagogues from the dawn of time, like for example in ancient Greece where Aristotle himself wrote about this subject. Croatian pedagogue Ladislav Bognar singled out three approaches to the concept of play: sociological, psychological and pedagogical. The contemporary approach to teaching emphasizes didactic play as the main method in learning and teaching language content. Didactic play is a specific form of play that has the function of accomplishing educational tasks. Didactic games have their own rules just like other games, and they have a positive effect on personality development, stimulate imagination and creativity and help students become more independent [1]. Furthermore, the application of didactic play emphasizes that teaching does not have to be exclusively traditional and formal, but also playful and interesting. In learning and teaching abstract language content, it is useful to apply language games as one of the modifications of didactic play. Language games can be defined as "a space where both adults and children are liberated in their own use of language, which they enjoy intuitively, mastering the rules and gaining the ability to act in accordance with them or the ability to break them" [2]. Play in class increases concentration and motivation in students for certain content, enhances their attention and interest, requires the active participation of all students in the educational process and makes teaching interesting and less monotonous. Language games can greatly aid younger pupils in acquiring abstract and monotonous language content and they also affect the quality of acquired knowledge. For the purpose of this work, research was conducted in one primary school, and the aim of the research was to show how language games affect the acquisition of content, as well as the results of relevant exams. The obtained results showed that the use of language games makes students more successful when compared to students who were taught in accordance with conventional methods.