The invention belongs to the communication technology field and provides a playing equipment grouping method, a piece of major playing equipment and a mobile terminal wherein the method comprises: upon receiving the electronic token requesting information transmitted from the mobile terminal, transmitting the electronic token to the mobile terminal if the major playing equipment is detected to have such electronic token so as to obtain the grouping information targeted to a plurality of playing equipment in the playing equipment system after the mobile terminal receives the electronic token and to transmit the grouping information to the major playing equipment wherein the major equipment is one piece of the plurality of the playing equipment; and conducting grouping operations to the plurality of playing equipment based on the grouping information after the grouping information transmitted from the mobile terminal is received. According to the invention, it is possible to effectively solve the problem in the prior art of continuing to group the playing equipment after the failure of a mobile terminal and the problem of continuous popping out of the information indicating the grouping failure.