From the box:
'Bailiwick is a fun easy to learn strategy game (only seven rules) of fast moves and quick-thinking, where players zigzag their tokens forward and backward around the rings, while racing to the center. The kaleidoscopic game board is a tricky maze where you must be on guard, because with the roll of the dice and the movement of a token, the whole can quickly shift!
The challenge of Bailiwick' is to wind your way through the four rings, moving your triangular tokens either forward (counter-clockwise) on the colored spaces, or backward (clockwise) on the white ones, and maneuvering them onto the steppingstones, to advance upward, as you try to be the first player to get all four tokens into your matching center "bailiwick space."
This game shares some similarities with Pachisi and Aggravation.