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.

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	0.484
2	Beehive	6	2	0.287
3	Loaf	7	2	0.0893
4	Boat	5	2	0.0820
5	Tub	4	3	0.0183
6	Pond	8	2	0.0173
7	Ship	6	3	0.0113
8	Long boat	7	3	0.00536
9	Ship-tie	12	4	0.00205
10	Barge	6	3	0.00121
11	Bi-loaf 1	14	3	7.71×10-4
12	Mango	8	3	4.76×10-4
13	Eater 1	7	2	2.60×10-4
14	Long barge	8	3	1.85×10-4
15	Aircraft carrier	6	4	1.15×10-4
16	Paperclip	14	3	7.28×10-5
17	Long ship	8	4	6.18×10-5
18	Shillelagh	8	4	4.54×10-5
19	Integral sign	9	4	4.27×10-5
20	Boat-tie	10	4	3.98×10-5
21	Snake	6	4	3.96×10-5
22	Big S	14	4	3.77×10-5
23	Bi-pond	16	4	3.03×10-5
24	Trans-boat with tail	9	4	1.72×10-5
25	Hat	9	3	1.65×10-5
26	Boat-ship-tie	11	4	1.37×10-5
27	Long long boat	9	3	1.17×10-5
28	Tub with tail	8	4	1.07×10-5
29	Long long ship	10	4	9.26×10-6
30	Table on table	12	4	8.26×10-6
31	Canoe	8	4	6.84×10-6
32	Cis-mirrored R-bee	14	4	4.32×10-6
33	Moose antlers	15	4	3.92×10-6
34	Block on table	10	4	3.62×10-6
35	Block and dock	14	4	3.54×10-6
36	Twin hat	17	5	3.25×10-6
37	Beehive and dock	16		2.38×10-6
38	Beehive with tail	10	4	2.31×10-6
39	Scorpion	16	4	1.85×10-6
40	Loop	10	5	1.80×10-6
41	Fourteener	14	4	1.56×10-6
42	Cis-boat with tail	9	4	1.27×10-6
43	Long snake	7	4	1.14×10-6
44	Trans-mirrored R-bee	14	4	1.08×10-6
45	Dead spark coil	18	4	1.07×10-6
46	Bookends	14	4	1.06×10-6
47	Elevener	11	4	1.04×10-6
48	Block and cap	12	4	1.00×10-6
49	Trans-loaf with tail	11	4	9.87×10-7
50	Cis-rotated hook	14		9.76×10-7
51	Trans-block and long hook	12	5	8.91×10-7
52	Cis-shillelagh	10	4	8.04×10-7
53	Mirrored dock	20	4	7.70×10-7
54	Carrier siamese snake	10	6	7.20×10-7
55	Trans-hook and R-bee	14		7.17×10-7
56	Block and two tails	12	4	6.91×10-7
57	Cis-boat and dock	15	4	6.48×10-7
58	Eater siamese eater	12	5	6.47×10-7
59	Cis-block and long hook	12	5	6.20×10-7
60	Long long snake	8	5	6.16×10-7
61	Integral with tub	10	5	5.75×10-7
62	Long shillelagh	9	6	5.06×10-7
63	Trans-R-bee and R-loaf	15		4.97×10-7
64	Boat with long tail	10	5	4.95×10-7
65	Cis-hook and R-bee	14		4.64×10-7
66	Beehive at loaf	13	7	4.45×10-7
67	Tub with long tail	9	5	4.37×10-7
68	Loaf siamese loaf	11	8	4.09×10-7
69	Hook with tail	8	4	4.05×10-7
70	Long integral	10	5	3.88×10-7
71	Eleven loop	11	4	3.85×10-7
72	Claw with tail	10	4	3.25×10-7
73	Symmetric scorpion	16		3.14×10-7
74	Cis-loaf with tail	11	4	3.13×10-7
75	Bee hat	15	4	2.96×10-7
76	Trans-rotated R-bee	14		2.94×10-7
77	Long canoe	9	4	2.92×10-7
78	Trans-boat and dock	15		2.68×10-7
79	Eater on boat	12	4	2.55×10-7
80	R-bee and snake	13	7	2.53×10-7
81	Cis-boat and table	11	4	2.41×10-7
82	Beehive and table	12	4	2.34×10-7
83	Snorkel loop	12	6	2.25×10-7
84	Trans-barge with tail	10	4	2.24×10-7
85	Beehive and cap	14		1.96×10-7
86	Trans-boat with nine	11	4	1.90×10-7
87	Ortho-loaf and table	13	6	1.87×10-7
88	Beehive bend tail	12	4	1.80×10-7
89	Beehive with nine	12	6	1.79×10-7
90	Cis-R-bee and R-loaf	15		1.76×10-7
91	Ship on long boat	13	6	1.73×10-7
92	Beehive at beehive	12	4	1.71×10-7

See also

• List of common oscillators
• Common