The present paper is a study on Truth and Method, the main work of the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. When it comes to the phenomenom of understanding (Verstehen) as the object of his thought, Gadamer explains us that the hermeneutics he intends to develop constitutes an attempt to understand the truth of human sciences, beyond their methodological self-consciousness, as well as, what links such sciences to the whole of our world experience. One of the central themes developed in this work, straightly linked to the question of understanding, is the concept of play (Spiel), known as an event that happens beyond the subjectivities involved in it. According to Gadamer, the universal scope and the ontological dimension of play should not be ignored. Therefore, we will try to show in this work that to play and to understand are interchangeable elements in Gadamer´s thought, inasmuch as to think about the connectedness of play-understanding is to realize that the structure of understanding demands one to surrender oneself to the situation in which the subjectivity is no longer the determinant instance regarding the moment of understanding.