Handful #5 answer

The seven tiles

T₁P₃G₃I₁I₁A₁L₂

The best three words: 46 points

1. PIGTAIL 27 points
2. PLAIT 11 points
3. GILT 8 points

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

Other high scorers

GLIA 8PAIL 8PILI 8GAIT 7GAP 7

There were 32 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.