Game of Life

Set some cells alive, press Run, and watch them live, die and move.

1Patterns

Six live forever and six die out. Which are which?

2Rules

  • Every cell has eight neighbors, diagonals included.
  • A live cell survives with two or three live neighbors.
  • An empty cell comes alive with exactly three.
  • Every other cell dies or stays empty.

3About

John Conway invented Life in 1970. His $50 prize for a pattern that grows forever went that November to Bill Gosper's team at MIT, for a glider gun.