To provide a standing device for fallen pins capable of easily standing the pins when erecting pins are fallen; and a play apparatus applying the device in the apparatus for a mini bowling game and the like.

This standing device for the fallen pins has a base having holes of the base, the hollow pins disposed on the upper part of the base, strings each fixed to the base of the hollow pin and having a weight in one end, and a push-down plate provided between the base and the weights and having hole parts for passing the strings. This device is further provided with a lever and a mechanism for lifting/lowering the push-down plate by the operation of the lever. The play device is provided with supports in one end in the longitudinal direction of an elongate base and obliquely installed from the support upper parts toward the base surface, an approximately U-shaped shooting part is fixed to the support upper parts turnably in the left/right direction, and the erecting device of the fallen pins is provided in the longitudinal other end of the elongate base.