One simple variant involves changing the number of suits in the game from 5 to other numbers of suits. Common changes on hanab.live are 3, 4, and 6 suits.
The most common variants change the game by including a special suit: one which does not follow the normal rules of suits. These special suits largely fall into two categories: ones which change in what clues touch the cards, and ones which change the cards themselves, sometimes including the order thet cards can play in.
| No rank clues | Correct rank clues | All rank clues | |
| No color clues | Null | White | Light Pink |
| Correct color clues | Brown | Normal Suits | Pink |
| All color clues | Muddy Rainbow | Rainbow (Multi) | Omni |
The 1 is touched by red, the 2 is touched by yellow, the 3 is touched by blue, the 4 by green, and the 5 by purple.
In ambiguous, cards in two (or more) suits are touched by the same color.
In chimneys, cards are touched by all ranks at least the rank of the card. In funnels, cards are touched be all ranks at most the rank of the card. In Matryosha, colors are considered to be arranged left-to-right, and cards are touched by all colors to the left of the card's color.
Black is a special suit where every card is unique.
In Critical 4s, there is only one copy of each 4 in the deck.
The Reversed variant reverses the order one suit should play: for that suit, cards must be played 5-4-3-2-1 instead of the standard 1-2-3-4-5
Clue starved is a variant where discards and plays of 5s only give back 0.5 clue tokens instead of one clue token.
In Throw it in a Hole, the play stacks are hidden. Players find out only at the end of the game their score and on what turns they earned strikes (if at all).
In Detrimental Characters, each player has a unique impediment