Having the five vowels on your rack is no the ideal situation to be in. The first time, from my recollection this happened to me, I concluded that there was a conspiracy against me and it was never-ending. Being a novice, I play scrabble from words I learn through the course of playing or in my natural interaction through reading. 

For very important reasons, this is a bad idea if you intend to develop and challenge the far more clued up scrabble players on the competitive scene. I cannot over...
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I just lost a game in the FSL because I simply didn't realise that CIDER took an A to make ACIDER. This shows how important is the value of hooks in the game. On my rack I had ACEIRTT, immediately spotted CATTIER (standard -IER), a few seconds later remembered from word study that CATTIER had two other anagrams - CITRATE and the more unusual ATRETIC. 

Had I played ATRETIC, - live it would seem as if I had studied a word list and some how learned this unusual word or online, depends on the play...
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