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Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist

Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist

This is a reproduction of Sierra’s walkthrough with a few minor corrections and improvements. Directions in grey are all optional; you can finish the game with full points even if you ignore these actions.

Act I: Living the Coarsegold Dream

Location Action Points
West Central Main Street Talk to Billy who is boarding up the Dirty Sheet Hotel. Go one screen west.
West Main Street Look at smithy's horse and talk to Smithy. Business is not going well. Walk one screen east and enter Mom's cafe.
Mom's Cafe Talk twice to mom and twice to Hop. Look at the cupboard and the large red bottle.
Get the empty can of beans. 1/1
Exit to main street and walk one screen East.
East Central Main Street Notice the closed Post office. Look at both other stores and the barber pole. Enter Chester Field's store.
Store Look at and talk to Willy. Look at the horse shoe and paper notifications.
Get the paper bag from the counter. 1/2
Exit and walk one screen east.
East Main Street Look at the buildings, and look at and talk to Dominic. Go east.
School house Look at the buildings, talk to the girl jumping the rope, and twice to Penelope when she comes out of school. Walk east.
Swamp Look at the wagon, the reservoir, the miner's commissary and the bubbles in the swamp when they appear. Return to East Main Street.
East Main Street Unlock the pharmacy with the key and enter. 500/502
Pharmacy Look at the diploma and the shelves on the left. Click on the counter gate to go behind the counter.
Penelope will give a prescription that needs to be filled. Talk a bit with her until she asks to get the medicine. Then enter the backroom of the pharmacy.
Backroom Look at the closet, mountain painting, carpet, bookshelf and other things.
Click on the work area to start work. Look at the prescription in the inventory.
Put the graduated cylinder (bottom shelf left) on the counter.
Use Pepticlymacine Tetrazole (top shelf, green bottle) on the graduated cylinder eight times (40 ml).
Put a medicine bottle on the counter and use the graduated cylinder on the medicine bottle.
Put the graduated cylinder away and put a cork on the medicine bottle.
Pharmacy Return to the main pharmacy room and give the medicine bottle to Penelope. 10/512
Helen "Mom" Back enters the pharmacy with another prescription. Go back to your work area.
Work Area Look at the prescription.
Put the graduated cylinder on the counter.
Use the Bismuth Enterosalicyline (top left purple bottle) three times on the graduated cylinder (15 ml).
Put the beaker on the counter, use the graduated cylinder on it.
Use the Phenodol Oxytriglychlorate (central shelf, large left jar) six times on the balance (30 mg).
Use the balance pan on the beaker (45 ml).
Put the balance pan back, stir the beaker with a stirring rod and use the stirring rod on the waste receptacle.
Click the beaker on the pill machine and put the beaker back.
Pick up a medicine bottle and click it on the pill machine seven times to empty it.
Put a cork on the bottle.
Return to the apothecary and give it to Mom. 10/522
Madame Sadie Ovaree enters with a prescription. Try reading it. Since you can't you'll have to see doc Gillespie who wrote it.
Leave the pharmacy, go two screens to the left and enter the Golden Balls Saloon.
Saloon Look at and talk three times to Sam Andreas the bartender. Look at the wheel of fortune and bottles above the bar. Talk to the moose head.
Talk to the Doc a few times. Take his glass when it's on the table. 1/523
Open up your inventory screen and use the glass on the prescription to read it. 10/533
Give the glass/prescription combination to the Doc and he'll correct it. 7/540
Return to the work area in the pharmacy, talking to Pete on the way.
Work Area Use Bimethylquinoline (central shelf) three times on the balance (15 mg).
Put the mortar and pestle on the counter and click the balance pan on it.
Use Metyraphosphate (top right large jar) three times on the balance (15 mg).
Click the pan on the mortar & pestle (30 mg).
Click on the mortar & pestle to grind it.
Lay out six medicinal papers on the counter. Pick up the measuring spatula, and click on the mortar & pestle and then on one of the papers. Do this for all six papers.
Put the spatula and the mortar and pestle back on the shelf.
Put a prescription box on the counter and put each paper in the box.
Pharmacy Give the box to Madame Ovaree 10/550
Smithy will hobble in, having pain in the butt.
Get the purple tube of Preparation G on the top of the left table in the store. 1/551
Give the tube to Smithy. He'll tell you he's leaving town, and pays his pharmacy tab of $4.87. 3/554
Sheriff Shift comes in and informs you that your pharmacy is a fire hazard, because the building is made of wood. You'll have to close down your pharmacy, like many other businesses in town.

Act II: The Plot Sickens

Location Action Points
Horse Flatulence (timed!)
East Main Street Go to the saloon (two screens left) and exit through its backdoor.
Behind Saloon Get the ice pick sticking from the barrel. 1/555
In inventory screen use the pick on the can to pierce holes in it. 5/560
Get the bottle of Dad Gumm's Magic Elixir from the wagon. 1/561
Go back to Smithie's on West Main Street (one screen left from saloon).
West Main Street Get old leather bridle. 1/562
Search Smithy's old forge to get charcoal. 1/563
In inventory, use the strap on the tin can. 5/568
In inventory, use the charcoal on the can. 3/571
Use the mask on yourself (and continue doing this when you're notified about feeling dizzy). 12/583
Wait by a horse until it farts and click the paper bag on its butt. 6/589
Work Area Use the elixir on the lamp. 5/594
Pick up the matches and light the alcohol lamp.
Pick up the gaseous spectroscope and place it in front of the lamp's flame.
Click the paper bag on the spectroscope (see game manual for what the pattern means). 10/604
Use Sodium Bicarbonate (central shelf, large blue jar) eight times on the balance (40 mg).
Put the beaker on the counter and use the balance pan on it.
Put the graduated cylinder on the counter. Use Furachlordone (top shelf, 4th left brown bottle) on the cylinder three times (15 ml) and add it to the beaker.
Use water (central shelf small bottle) on the graduated cylinder nine times (45 ml) and pour it in the beaker.
Use Magnesium Sulfate (central shelf, far left) once on the balance (5 mg), and add it in the beaker.
Stir the beaker with a stirring rod, pour the contents into a medicine bottle, and put a cork on it. 5/609
East Main Street Pour the medicine bottle into the horses' water trough. 20/629
Snail Stampede
East Main Street A boy will tell Freddy a snail stampede is approaching.
Cafe Talk to mom to find out beer works to stop a stampede of snails.
Saloon Give money to Sam, the bartender, to get a case of Loebrau. 5/634
Go through the back door and follow the path down to the church.
Central Bluff Street Open the church door, look at the right church doorknob to get a close-up and take the key. 1/635
In the inventory use the church key on the beer. 2/637
Go left, down, twice left across the bridge.
Robertson Cliff Pick up a few snails. 1/638
Use the beer on the snails to kill them. 16/654
Rescuing Srini
An Indian named Srini is on top of the large anthill and refuses to come down because that might kill some ants.
Mom's Cafe Give mom the snails. 1/655
School House When the little girl's not climbing up the ladder, take it. 1/656
Robertson Cliff Use the ladder on the anthill. Srini becomes Freddy's assistant. 10/666
Poisoned water supply (timed!)
Work Area Go to the school house and 1 screen north.
East Bluff Street Something has happened to Coarsegold's water supply. Turn the water on and use the empty beer bottles on the water to get a sample. 1/667
Drink the water (click the bottle on Freddy). 1/668
Robertson Cliff Fetch the ladder from the anthill. Notice Cedric and the buzzards.
Go to the bridge and return to the cliff to see Cedric being eaten by the buzzards.
West Main Street Get the rope from Smithie's wall. 1/669
Work Area Place 25 ml of Bismuth Subsalicylate (top shelf pink bottle) into the graduated cylinder and pour it into the test tube.
Measure 5 ml of Orphenamethihydride (top shelf, central brown bottle) and pour that into the test tube.
Light the alcohol lamp, and heat the test tube over it.
Pour the content into a medicine bottle and cork it.
East Bluff Street Click the ladder on the right side of the tower. 2/671
Walk up on the ladder (using the boot icon), stand on the deck, get the ladder and place it on the deck. 4/675
In inventory, make a lasso from the rope. 2/677
Walk up the ladder and use the lasso on the tip of the tower. 5/682
Use the rope to climb up. Open the hatch on the right side of the tower and use the medicine bottle on the hatch. 10/692
Assay Office fire!
Pharmacy During the night, Srini wakes up Freddy and tells him that a neighboring building is on fire.
East Main Street Pick up the baking soda on your porch. 1/693
School House Put the baking soda on the higher end of the teeter-totter. 2/695
Get on the swing, start swinging (by clicking on yourself) and click on the roof of the school to jump up. 5/700
Jump on the upper end of the teeter-totter to shoot the baking soda onto the assay office. 12/712
Ye Ole 'Orehouse
Go to West Main Street and down.
Ye Ole 'Orehouse You overhear Sheriff Shift and P.H. Balance talking about some evil plan.
Go inside and take the French postcards from the table. 1/713
Wait and talk with the girls until Madame Ovaree appears.

Act III: Guns & Neuroses

Location Action Points
Getting back the pistols
Bedroom Freddy decided to pick up gunslinging again.
Open the nightstand drawer and use the glasses to look inside. Get the key. 1/714
Work Area Use the key to unlock the desk. Open it and unlock the drawer with the same key.
Use the glasses to look inside and get the letter from Philip Graves.		 1/715
The letter states that Freddy left his safe deposit box key with Philip, who recently died.
East Main Street Get the horse plop. 1/716
Head to the church and left into the cemetery.
Cemetery Get the shovel. 1/717
Use the shovel on Philip Graves' grave (right of where the shovel was). 2/719
Click on the grave with the hand icon to find the safe deposit box key. 5/724
Main Street Go to the Bank of Bob near Smithy's shop.
Bank Show P.H. Balance the key to get your safe deposit box. 1/725
Open the box, the scarf and get your pistols. 1/726
Get the scarf. 3/729
Mom's Cafe Use the machine to get coffee. 1/730
Put the horse plop on the floor of Mom's Cafe to distract Hop Sing. 9/739
Hurry to the back of Mom's (through the saloon) and get the pie from the window sill before Hop comes back. 1/740
Sheriff's Office Give the sheriff the coffee to get some bullets for your gun. 4/744
Give the pie to get a cleaning kit for your gun. 4/748
In inventory use the gun cleaning kit on the pistols. 5/753
In inventory load the bullets in the pistol.
West Bluff Street Talk to Srini, place the empty beer bottles on the fence and go through the target practice at any difficulty. 15/768
Making a new ear
Srini recommends Freddy to get a disguise and a false ear.
Church Get the candles on the left to get wax for a new ear. 1/769
Cemetery Pick up some clay from the pile. 1/770
Store Use the wax on Willie. 2/772
Leave and re-enter the store for Willie to leave and get his knife. 1/773
In inventory, use the knife on the wax to create a wax ear.
Pharmacy Get Srini's silver medallion. 1/774
Work Area In inventory, use the clay on the wax ear.
Light the alcohol lamp and hold the clay over it so the wax melts.
Put the crucible on the counter and put the medallion on it.
Put the crucible at the alcohol lamp to melt the medallion.
Use the clay on the crucible to pour the silver in the mold.
In inventory, use the hand on the ear to remove the clay. 20/794
Retrieving Freddy's old clothes
Bedroom Open the chest, use the glasses on it and get Freddy's old cowboy clothes. 1/795
Open the dresser drawer, look in it and get the claim check for your old boots. 1/796
Exit the pharmacy, go 1 screen left and enter Salvatori O'Hanahan's
Salvatori O'Hanahan's Show Sal the check and you'll get your boots, completing your outfit. 5/801
Use the ear on Freddy. 1/802

Act IV: Showdown at the Hallelujah Corral

Location Action Points
Wheaton "Aces" Hall
West Central Main Street Talk to Chester, who has lost his store in a poker game.
Saloon Have a chat with Larry's great great grand father.
Talk to the poker player. Look at the poker game to see Aces is cheating.
When you see the third hand pop up, grab it. 10/812
Shoot the brass rail of the bar to ricochet the bullet, taking down Aces. 20/832
Rowdy cowboys
Saloon Try leaving the saloon through the front door. Talk to Sam the bartender.
Leave the saloon through the back exit, go to East Bluff Street.
East Bluff Street Enter Sal's place through the secret exit underneath the blue roof (south between the roof and the beams).
Barber Shop Give Sal the French postcards to get nitrous oxide. 5/837
Leave the barber shop through the back and go back to the back of the saloon.
Behind Saloon Go up the stairs to the hotel's balcony and put the laughing gas on the middle of the banners. 5/842
Go to the gazebo next to the brothel (West Bluff Street, West Main Street, south).
Outside Orehouse Aim your pistol and shoot the canister of laughing gas in the distance. 20/862
The Lever Bros
West Main Street The Lever Bros. arrive. Pick any difficulty and shoot the outlaws (avoid shooting the innocent). 20/882
Kenny the Kid
West Main Street Kenny the Kid (who shot Freddy's ear off long ago) arrives. Shoot him as soon as you regain control. You will knock the gun out of his hand but he'll shoot Freddy's other ear off!
Take off your neckerchief. 5/887
Use the neckerchief on the bleeding ear. 10/897
Confronting Penelope
School Quickly click on your gun belt with the hand to drop your guns when she tells you to do so. Then quickly grab the slate on the desk to block her shot. 10/907
School Basement After the dialogue, click on yourself to start rocking and continue clicking until you fall over.
Get the silver ear from the floor. 1/908
Use the ear on the floor to sharpen it. 10/918
Use the sharpened ear to cut the ropes. You'll go upstairs. 10/928
Classroom Quickly grab the other sabre before Penelope gets to you. 1/929
Select any difficulty, switch to the sabre in inventory, and try to match Penelope's high and low strikes with the sabre until you pin her to the ground (she'll slowly back up when you're winning). 35/964
When Kenny shows up again, throw the sharpened ear at him to cut his throat. 35/999