diff --git a/src/client/components/Dailies.tsx b/src/client/components/Dailies.tsx
index b191a95..97cf91d 100644
--- a/src/client/components/Dailies.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/Dailies.tsx
@@ -194,8 +194,13 @@ function TickChip({
       aria-pressed={isDone}
       aria-label={`${ariaLabel}${isDone ? ", done today" : ", not done today"}`}
       title={title}
-      className="flex max-w-[15rem] items-center gap-2 rounded-full border px-3 py-1.5 text-xs font-medium transition-colors"
+      // Done-ness for the stylesheet: the chip's own colours are the game's
+      // hue and arrive inline, which no rule can override, so the hover has to
+      // be drawn from what inline does not own — see `.tick-chip`.
+      data-done={isDone}
+      className="tick-chip flex max-w-[15rem] items-center gap-2 rounded-full border px-3 py-1.5 text-xs font-medium"
       style={{
+        ["--hue" as string]: hue,
         borderColor: isDone ? hue : `color-mix(in srgb, ${hue} 20%, transparent)`,
         // Colour identifies the game; done-ness is carried by the tick, the
         // full-strength border and the wash. Keeping the label readable matters
@@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ function TickChip({
           opacity={isDone ? 1 : 0.25}
         />
       </svg>
-      <span className="truncate">{label}</span>
+      <span className="tick-label truncate">{label}</span>
       {streak > 1 && (
         <span className="tnum shrink-0 text-[0.625rem] opacity-70">{streak}d</span>
       )}
diff --git a/src/client/styles.css b/src/client/styles.css
index a410337..0187d3f 100644
--- a/src/client/styles.css
+++ b/src/client/styles.css
@@ -295,6 +295,52 @@ body {
     filter 130ms ease-out;
 }
 
+/* ---- Today's dailies ---------------------------------------------------- */
+/*
+ * A daily chip is the fastest thing on the page to act on, and it was saying
+ * none of that: the pointer stayed an arrow and nothing happened under it, so a
+ * strip of tappable jobs read as a row of status badges.
+ *
+ * The hover is drawn from what the component does *not* own. A chip's border,
+ * ink and wash are mixed from the game's hue, which is data rather than a token
+ * and therefore arrives as an inline style — and no rule here can override one
+ * of those. So the cursor, a ring in the same hue, a one-pixel lift and the
+ * label coming up to full ink carry it instead. `--hue` and `data-done` are the
+ * two things the chip hands over for that.
+ *
+ * The label only brightens while the job is outstanding: on a finished chip the
+ * ink *is* the game's hue, and overriding it with `ink` would trade the one
+ * thing that says which game for a hover state.
+ */
+.tick-chip {
+  transition:
+    border-color 130ms ease-out,
+    background-color 130ms ease-out,
+    color 130ms ease-out,
+    box-shadow 130ms ease-out,
+    transform 120ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.7, 0.3, 1);
+}
+
+.tick-label {
+  transition: color 130ms ease-out;
+}
+
+@media (hover: hover) {
+  .tick-chip:hover {
+    transform: translateY(-1px);
+    box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px color-mix(in srgb, var(--hue) 45%, transparent);
+  }
+  .tick-chip[data-done="false"]:hover .tick-label {
+    color: var(--color-ink);
+  }
+}
+
+/* Press feedback on both mouse and touch, as the event row has. */
+.tick-chip:active {
+  transform: scale(0.96);
+  transition-duration: 60ms;
+}
+
 @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
   .event-row,
   .row-rail,
@@ -302,13 +348,17 @@ body {
   .row-count,
   .row-summary,
   .row-check,
-  .meter-tick {
+  .meter-tick,
+  .tick-chip,
+  .tick-label {
     transition: none;
   }
   .row-check:hover,
   .row-check:active,
   .event-row:hover .row-open,
-  .event-row:hover .row-rail {
+  .event-row:hover .row-rail,
+  .tick-chip:hover,
+  .tick-chip:active {
     transform: none;
   }
 }