Bailiwick is a delightful American strategy game derived, unintentionally I understand, from an ancient Indian game. Think about the board from Ludo/Parcheesi/Sorry, that enerable line of race and pursuit games. Euclid would have loved this square board with its straight track divided into even squares for movement. Now suppose some crazy ost-modern mathemetician got hold of the board and translated the whole thing to polar oordinates. Add a backtrack to allow pawns to move both forward and backward but prevent forward moving pawns from interacting with backward moving pawns. Then make the board slowly sink in toward home across several levels like the tiers of Hell from Dantes Inferno. Spice things up by allowing captures from above and below. And cap it all off by making the last tier a small and dangerous place to be. Thats Bailiwick.Despite my apocalyptic description above, Bailiwick is every bit as much of a light family game as Parcheesi. The circular board, multiple tiers, and 3D captures add flavor to the game but, in practice, do not make it that much more complex to play. In fact, if I had to find something to complain about here, it would be that the game runs a tad long for what it has to offer,

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