Handful #11 answer

The seven tiles

C₃R₁A₁U₂O₁E₁G₃

The best three words: 59 points

1. COURAGE 27 points
2. COUGAR 17 points
3. AERUGO 15 points

The seven-letter word using every tile was COURAGE, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.

Other high scorers

GUACO 13CAGER 12CARGO 12GRACE 12ARGUE 11

There were 64 valid words of three letters or more in these tiles. A word scores the sum of its tile values plus a length bonus (4 letters +1, 5 letters +3, 6 letters +6, 7 letters +15), so one long word usually beats several short ones.