List of common still lifes

This is a list of the most common still lifes in the Game of Life, specifically Catagolue's B3/S23/C1 census. 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	0.496
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-shillelagh	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