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	0.484
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	Half-bakery	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

• Common
• Frequency class
• List of common oscillators