The invention discloses a bullet screen playing method and device. The method includes the following steps that: a bullet screen to be played is obtained; when the playing parameters of the bullet screen in a playing window are initialized, position parameters contained in the playing parameters are determined according to the position parameter of the border area of the playing window; and the bullet screen is played at the border area of the playing window based on the initialized playing parameters. With the bullet screen playing method and device of the invention adopted, the blocking of the playing screen of the playing window caucused by the bullet screen can be effectively reduced, and a condition that the bullet screen affects the watching of a user of the playing screen in the playing window can be effectively avoided.