6 yo DS terrible loser

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I have a 6 yo DS who likes to be the best at everything and really can't handle loosing. He had a playdate today and ended up in floods of tears because the other boy scored more goals than him. I guess its a phase but any ways of speeding him out of it? I could cope if it was just upset tears but he gets mad upset and starts screaming etc, the other little lad thought he was bonkers and it made it really awkward as DH had to take DS away to calm him down. He also doesn't really get "being nice" to someone when it involves him not getting exactly what he wants. Is this normal for a just 6 year old? They were playing together and I had talked beforehand about letting his guest have/do what he wants and about being a good friend/host but it all obv all on deaf ears

it is a phase and it will pass but there are things you can do in the meantime:

games of chance ie snap/snakes and ladders/ludo/beetle

games of skill ie memory/ping pong ball in the bucket/football goal shooting

games that you can engineer YOU to lose ie Most Stylish Horse (tossing head, neighing, prancing) or hopscotch

Obv you and other adults to model being gracious loser

Hopefully it's a phase as mine are going through it too! The 8 year old seems to be getting better but the 5 year old omg total meltdown...
But in life you can't win at everything - my aim is to teach them to play to win but be gracious in defeat...

So you would say more games then, we have been playing much less games as neither of us could be done with the fireworks or gloating afterwards, guess I need to grit my teeth and get the games back out (I'll warn the neighbours first though!)

The more games he plays the more he'll realise sometimes you win sometimes you lose!

Or do a best of 3, 5 etc that way he still feels like he's won something even though he may have lost a few times, may ease the pain