As a longtime writer, Zvonimir Balog has been awarded many times for his literary works. An important characteristic of his literary work is humor, a humorous-witty tone that he achieves by choosing words. The aim of this paper is to get acquainted with Balog's language game in poetry and prose. Many classify his prose as poetry because there is not much difference in writing. The difference is only that prose is written from edge to edge of the page, but sentences are short and rhythmic and sometimes they are rhymed. Poetry is written almost in the same way as his prose because there is always some kind of language games and humor. At the beginning of the paper, it is written about Balog's humor that he achieves through language games, then about his biography and later it is written about language games in several collections of poems and prose – stories and children's novel and about various forms of language game. Finally, several critiques of his writing and literary works are quoted. Balog's way of writing is special, both in poetry and prose, and that is why he has a lot of followers who is trying to write like him. He played with words in his literary work like a child with toys. He twisted words, changed them and created completely new ones with the help of his imagination and sense of play. With language game, humor and nonsense in his literary work, people forget all the troubles in life and enter a new, magical world.