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	Dead spark coil	18	4	0.00000615
32	Canoe	8	4	0.00000540
33	Cis-mirrored R-bee	14	4	0.00000398
34	Moose antlers	15	4	0.00000358
35	Beehive on dock	16	4	0.00000292
36	Block on table	10	4	0.00000291
37	Block on dock	14	4	0.00000265
38	Scorpion	16	4	0.00000213
39	Beehive with tail	10	4	0.00000176
40	Twin hat	17	5	0.00000168
41	Loop	10	5	0.00000144
42	Long snake	7	4	0.00000142
43	Fourteener	14	4	0.00000140
44	Bookends	9	4	0.00000114
45	Cis-boat with tail	9	4	9.225x10-7
46	Cis-rotated hook	9	4	9.084x10-7
47	Elevener	11	4	8.872x10-7
48	Mirrored dock	8	4	8.178x10-7
49	Block on cap	12	4	7.902x10-7
50	Trans-loaf with tail	11	4	7.689x10-7
51	Cis-shillelagh	10	4	7.571x10-7
52	Trans-mirrored R-bee	9	4	7.350x10-7
53	Trans-block on long hook	12	4	6.897x10-7
54	Prodigal	10	4	6.219x10-7
55	Broken snake	10	4	5.623x10-7
56	Trans-hook and R-bee	9	4	5.201x10-7
57	Eater siamese eater	12	4	5.070x10-7
58	Block and two tails	12	4	5.063x10-7
59	Cis-boat on dock	15	4	5.049x10-7
60	Cis-block on long hook	12	4	4.736x10-7
61	Very long snake	9	4	4.687x10-7
62	Boat with long tail	10	4	4.358x10-7
63	Long shillelagh	9	4	4.188x10-7
64	Beehive at loaf	13	4	4.161x10-7
65	Long integral	10	4	3.356x10-7
66	Tub with long tail	9	4	3.340x10-7
67	Hook with tail	8	4	3.328x10-7
68	Loaf siamese loaf	13	9	3.260x10-7
69	Long canoe	9	4	2.674x10-7
70	Eleven loop	13	9	2.633x10-7
71	Cis-loaf with tail	13	9	2.614x10-7
72	Claw with tail	10	4	2.508x10-7
73	Cis-boat on table	13	9	1.812x10-7
74	Trans barge with tail	10	4	1.685x10-7
75	Trans-boat with nine	13	9	1.450x10-7
76	Very long barge	10	4	1.221x10-7
77	Trans-long boat with tail	11	9	1.181x10-7
78	Hungry hat	11	9	1.051x10-7
79	Trans-boat on table	[11	9	1.015x10-7
80	Cis-boat with nine	[11	9	1.010x10-7
81	Boat with hooked tail	[11	9	5.985x10-8
82	Carrier siamese carrier	10	9	5.832x10-8
83	Very long shillelagh	10	9	5.771x10-8
84	Long hook with tail	9	4	5.706x10-8
85	Snake with feather	11	9	5.676x10-8
86	Aircraft carrier with feather	11	9	5.433x10-8
87	Long^3 boat	11	9	5.324x10-8
88	Cis-barge with tail	10	9	4.704x10-8

See also

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