Handful #12 answer

The seven tiles

R₁D₂Y₄A₁E₁R₁A₁

The best three words: 54 points

1. ARRAYED 26 points
2. DREARY 16 points
3. DEARY 12 points

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

Other high scorers

DERRY 12DRYER 12READY 12ARRAY 11DARER 9

There were 39 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.