List of common still lifes

This is a list of the most common still lifes in the Game of Life. The "approximate relative frequency" column gives an estimate of the proportion of all randomly-occurring still lifes that will be of the given type, as computed in Achim Flammenkamp's census.

This table only includes strict still lifes and thus does not count objects like honey farms.

Rank	Pattern	# of cells	Glider cost	Approximate relative frequency (out of 1.00)
1	Block	4	2	0.496
2	Beehive	6	2	0.263
3	Loaf	7	2	0.0776
4	Boat	5	2	0.0717
5	Ship	6	3	0.0494
6	Tub	4	3	0.0156
7	Pond	8	2	0.0152
8	Long boat	7	3	0.00503
9	Ship-tie	12	4	0.00255
10	Barge	6	3	0.00106
11	Half-bakery	14	3	0.000865
12	Mango	8	3	0.000389
13	Eater 1	7	2	0.000251
14	Long barge	8	3	0.000141
15	Aircraft carrier	6	4	0.000122
16	Paperclip	14	3	0.0000709
17	Long ship	8	4	0.0000483
18	Integral sign	9	4	0.0000444
19	Shillelagh	8	4	0.0000383
20	Boat-tie	10	4	0.0000375
21	Snake	6	4	0.0000336
22	Big S	14	4	0.0000335
23	Bi-pond	16	4	0.0000292
24	Trans-boat with tail	9	4	0.0000160
25	Boat tie ship	11	4	0.0000133
26	Hat	9	3	0.0000126
27	Very long ship	10	4	0.0000103
28	Very long boat	9	3	0.00000922
29	Tub with tail	8	4	0.00000870
30	Table and table	12	4	0.00000651
31	Canoe	8	4	0.00000540
32	Cis-mirrored R-bee	14	4	0.00000398
33	Moose antlers	15	4	0.00000358
34	Beehive on dock	16	4	0.00000292
35	Block on table	10	4	0.00000291
36	Block on dock	14	4	0.00000265
37	Scorpion	16	4	0.00000213
38	Beehive with tail	10	4	0.00000176
39	Twin hat	17	5	0.00000168
40	Loop	10	5	0.00000144
41	Long snake	7	4	0.00000142
42	Fourteener	14	4	0.00000140
43	Cis-boat with tail	9	4	9.225×10-7
44	Cis-shilllelagh	10	4	7.571×10-7
45	Prodigal	10	4	6.219×10-7
46	Broken snake	10	4	5.623×10-7
46	Very long snake	9	4	4.687×10-7
47	Boat with long tail	10	4	4.358×10-7
48	Long shillelagh	9	4	4.188×10-7

See also

• Common
• Frequency class
• List of common oscillators
• List of common spaceships