I see a lot of folks pointing fingers and declaiming "we know what's going to happen today! Best believe we're not gonna fall for any of your tricks! And we're not solving any of your sudoku!"

Those folks are all lying. Here at GAPP we take pencil puzzles and milestones extremely seriously, more so than any holidays or customs. So forget about Edible Book Day and Boomer Bonus Day, this Yajisan-Kazusan is purely to celebrate the 888th GAPP.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. If a cell with a number in it is unshaded, the number represents how many shaded cells are in a straight line in the indicated direction. If a cell with a number in it is shaded, the number is meaningless.

Here's the most recent previous appearance of Yajisan-Kazusan in GAPP.
2023-08-07-jovi: Archive: Monday, 7 August 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Party Hat Papuan Harrier 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by jovi: https://tinyurl.com/3zt5dxhd
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ykd5yr6h

We've just reached 57 sloths on the Yajisan-Kazusan!! To celebrate, here's a bonus Slitherlink!

Don't worry about the censoring, all puzzles in the GAPP channel are perfectly SFW. I just had a technical glitch and I don't know how to get rid of it. The whole formatting system feels like a black box to me.

Rules: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. To be clear, all line segments are horizontal or vertical, not diagonal. Clues represent the number of edges drawn surrounding the clue (up to four).

Here's the most recent previous non-variant appearance of Slitherlink in GAPP.
2023-10-14-walker: Archive: Saturday, 14 October 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 0:03 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:33 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Milestone Merlin 🐦

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2f5r9pkf (do make sure to attempt this, it will be very important for the GAPP)
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4m8sk9ud

Much like buses, puzzles always come in threes. So here's another one, this time it's a Tapa.

Again, don't worry about the obstruction, I really tried everything I could to remove it... the whole puzzle will be visible in the Penpa link, and I can guarantee that it contains absolutely nothing even remotely questionable.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue.

Here's the most recent previous non-variant appearance of Tapa in GAPP.
2023-11-07-shye: Archive: Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Triple Taita Thrush 🐦

Example (Penpa+) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/22o22zox
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2cq29heo