Handful #24 answer

The seven tiles

D₂G₃O₁Y₄V₅A₁E₁

The best three words: 71 points

1. VOYAGED 32 points
2. VOYAGE 21 points
3. GYVED 18 points

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

Other high scorers

GYVE 14EDGY 11GAVE 11DEVA 10DOVE 10

There were 38 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.