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	3	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	4	0.00000168
41	Loop	10	4	0.00000144
42	Long snake	7	4	0.00000142
43	Fourteener	14	4	0.00000140
44	Bookends	14	4	0.00000114
45	Cis-boat with tail	9	4	9.225×10-7
46	Cis-rotated hook	14	4	9.084×10-7
47	Elevener	11	4	8.872×10-7
48	Mirrored dock	20	4	8.178×10-7
49	Block on cap	12	4	7.902×10-7
50	Trans-loaf with tail	11	4	7.689×10-7
51	Cis-shillelagh	10	4	7.571×10-7
52	Trans-mirrored R-bee	14	4	7.350×10-7
53	Trans-block on long hook	12	4	6.897×10-7
54	Prodigal	10	4	6.219×10-7
55	Broken snake	10	4	5.623×10-7
56	Trans-hook and R-bee	14	4	5.201×10-7
57	Eater head siamese eater tail	12	4	5.070×10-7
58	Block and two tails	12	4	5.063×10-7
59	Cis-boat on dock	15	4	5.049×10-7
60	Cis-block on long hook	12	4	4.736×10-7
61	Very long snake	9	4	4.687×10-7
62	Boat with long tail	10	4	4.358×10-7
63	Long shillelagh	9	4	4.188×10-7
64	Beehive at loaf	13	4	4.161×10-7
65	Long integral	10	4	3.356×10-7
66	Tub with long tail	9	4	3.340×10-7
67	Cis-hook and R-bee	14	4	3.336×10-7
68	Hook with tail	8	4	3.328×10-7
69	Loaf siamese loaf	11	4	3.260×10-7
70	Long canoe	9	4	2.674×10-7
71	11 loop	11	4	2.633×10-7
72	Ortho-loaf on table	13	4	2.625×10-7
73	Cis-loaf with tail	11	4	2.614×10-7
74	Claw with tail	10	4	2.508×10-7
75	Trans-rotated R-bee	14	4	2.335×10-7
76	R-bee and snake	13	4	2.090×10-7
77	Boat tie eater tail	12	4	1.966×10-7
78	Snorkel loop	12	4	1.880×10-7
79	Beehive on table	12	4	1.859×10-7
80	Cis-boat on table	11	4	1.812×10-7
81	Trans barge with tail	10	4	1.685×10-7
82	Beehive on cap	14	4	1.561×10-7
83	Beehive at beehive	12	4	1.558×10-7
84	Ship on long boat	13	5	1.548×10-7
85	Cis-boat and cap	13	4	1.494×10-7
86	Beehive bend tail	12	4	1.488×10-7
87	Trans-boat with nine	11	4	1.450×10-7
88	Beehive with nine	12	4	1.259×10-7
89	Very long barge	10	5	1.221×10-7
90	Trans-long boat with tail	11	4	1.181×10-7
91	Hungry hat	11	4	1.051×10-7
92	Trans-boat on table	11	4	1.015×10-7
93	Cis-boat with nine	11	5	1.010×10-7
94	xs13_321fgkc	13	4	9.659×10-8
95	Loaf back tie loaf	14	4	9.069×10-8
96	Boat tie long boat	12	4	7.985×10-8
97	Trans-mango with tail	12	4	7.376×10-8
98	13-boat wrap eater	13	4	7.193×10-8
99	Bi-loaf 2	14	4	7.080×10-8
100	Para-R-bee on loaf	14	4	6.964×10-8
101	Inverted double claw	12	5	6.933×10-8
102	?13-head	13	4	6.632×10-8
103	R-bee on beehive	13	4	6.327×10-8
104	Boat with hooked tail	11	4	5.985×10-8
105	Carrier siamese carrier	10	4	5.832×10-8
106	Very long shillelagh	10	4	5.771×10-8
107	House siamese shillelagh	13	5	5.731×10-8
108	Long hook with tail	9	5	5.706×10-8
109	Snake with feather	11	4	5.676×10-8
110	Aircraft carrier with feather	11	4	5.433×10-8
111	Carrier siamese dock	14	4	5.350×10-8
112	Cis-mirrored offset hooks	14	4	5.332×10-8
113	Long^3 boat	11	4	5.324×10-8
114	Cis-beehive and longhook	14	4	5.104×10-8
115	xs14_g8id96z121	14	5	4.814×10-8
116	Cis-barge with tail	10	4	4.704×10-8
117	Krake	13	4	4.509×10-8
118	Ship tie snake	12	5	4.506×10-8
119	?14-beehive with long bend tail	14	4	4.495×10-8
120	12-loop	12	4	4.217×10-8
121	xs13_354mp3	13	4	4.137×10-8
122	Sidewalk	14	4	3.986×10-8
123	xs14_2egu156	14	5	3.857×10-8
124	xs13_08ka96z321	13	5	3.788×10-8

See also

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