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If Five Hands — the game the Maya Pei Brigade plays to solve their internal disputes deep in the jungle — looks familiar, that’s because Sam Gilroy created it based on the playground staple Rock Paper Scissors.

The actor behind Gerdis this season and actor Benjamin Norris, who plays his rival Bardi, initially inspired their characters at a family dinner, his father and creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy tells StarWars.com.

“I went out for dinner with my family. It was a big, long dinner table and I was at the end of the table with my son and Ben Norris,” he recalls. “It was a big, rowdy, drunken dinner.” Their antics gave Gilroy an idea for the series, adding a bit of levity and allowing a new take on the burgeoning rebellion. “So I went back and I started writing Heckle and Jeckle in the woods.”

As the character grew, Sam Gilroy crafted theStar Wars spin on the hand game by not only introducing alternative gestures, but also adding several layers of complexity. In Five Hands, there are 15 animal gestures, includingrancor, snork, and snoozbird, which are displayed by two players in three rounds overseen by a referee.

You can see a shortened version, the so-called Roski Rules, playing out this week in the three-episode premiere ofAndor. Read on for more fun facts and trivia from the first arc this season.

Episodes 201-203

1. (Above) In addition to their home base at Pinewood Studios,Andor Season 2 returned to Longcross Studios in Surrey, England, last used for theMillennium Falcon,Ahch-To island library tree, andCanto Bight casino entrance set builds for 2017’sStar Wars: The Last Jedi.

2.Rogue One andSolo: A Star Wars Story co-costume designer Glyn Dillon returned as a concept artist forAndor Season 2, under costume designer Michael Wilkinson.

3.(Above)The TIE Avenger prototype thatCassian Andor steals was a rare full interior and exteriorTIE Fighter set build. It could support its own weight on four points of its lower wings.

4.(Above)The TIE Avenger prototype design was, in part, initially inspired byKylo Ren’s TIE Whisper fromStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The TIE Avenger was first featured in the 1994 TIE Fighter computer game from LucasArts.

5.(Above)The starfighters that chase Cassian Andor from Sienar’s Imperial testing base are TIE Advanced prototypes, first seen inStar Wars Rebels‘ Season 1 episode Empire Day.

6.(Above)The jungle clearing where Cassian encounters the Maya Pei rebels was a section of Longcross Studios test track covered in plants by theAndor Greens team.

7. (Above) The hippo-like Yavinian doodar creature that attacks the Maya Pei rebels was named after its designer, Alexander Dudar.

8.(Above)The fields of Mina-Rau were an ancient rye planted specifically forAndor Season 2 in Watlington, Oxfordshire and took a full year to grow. Due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, the crop had to be harvested and placed in sheets of polystyrene by the Greens team, allowing the outdoor location sets to be reconstructed on Pinewood’s 007 Stage in early 2024.

9.(Above)The mobil-haus where Cassian,Bix Caleen,Brasso, andWilmon Paak live on Mina-Rau was a full interior and exterior set build, disassembled and relocated/reassembled twice to Pinewood Studios, first due to torrential rain and then the actors’ strike of 2023.

10.(Above)ILM modified their Gozanti cruiser digital model, created for the second season ofThe Mandalorian, to become the Imperial scan cruiser seen in the skies of Mina-Rau.

11.(Above)Brasso’s speeder on Mina-Rau was mounted to a vehicle, allowing it to accelerate and fly completely in camera, as opposed to the VFX compositing typically employed forStar Wars speeders.

12.(Above)The beasts of burden utilized by the farmers of Mina-Rau were an unused design from AndorSeason 1 for cattle found onAldhani. They are operated by two puppeteers, each operating a pair of legs.

13.(Above)An Imperial transport from later inAndor Season 2 was adapted into a troop carrier for Mina-Rau, as the first arc was shot out of sequence.

14.(Above)The mountain range that envelops Santa Maria de Montserrat, an active Benedictine abbey in Montserrat, Spain, was utilized for the area aroundMon Mothma’s Chandrilan estate.

15.(Above)TheAndor cast traveled to Montserrat, Spain, in March of 2023 to film the traditional Chandrilan hike sequence before relocating to Valencia for the Season 2Coruscant location shooting.

16.(Above)The wedding dance to Season 1’s diegetic synthpop track “Niamos!” was among the last shot forAndor Season 2 in January 2024.

17. Some of the wedding guest speeders were reused from production onThe Acolyte, a series that had previously reused some of theAndor Season 1 speeders during shooting.

18. (Above) Hundreds of costumes, including jewelry and headwear, were created for the extras populating the Chandrilan wedding sequence.

19.(Above)It took costume designer Michael Wilkinson’s team six months to constructLeida Mothma’s wedding dress, which included dozens of pattern pieces sewn together, with hand-beading and hand-finishing.

20.(Above)The view outsideDirector Orson Krennic’s secret meeting conference room was a hand-painted backdrop, touched up digitally by ILM.

21.(Above)Dedra Meero’s Coruscant apartment was, in part, inspired by Torres Blancas in Madrid, Spain, an Organicist building designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.

22.(Above)Dedra Meero’s dining room table was modelled off of a 1970s prototype that set decorator Rebecca Alleway found in a magazine. Designed for serving fondue, the set piece inspired showrunner Tony Gilroy to add fondue to the menu in the Dedra, Syril, andEedy Karn dinner scene.

23.(Above)A ring-shaped docking bay, not unlike Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley, for Luthen’sFondor Haulcraft was designed forAndor Season 2 by the art department but was never used on-screen.

24.(Above)Kleya Marki’s fractal radio in the backroom of Luthen’s gallery was partially inspired by an old telephone operator’s switchboard.