Good try!
I dont think you can buy vowels, its not wheel of fortune, its scrabble.
I would play SKIT
Heres some more letters now Ive taken four away.
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Hmm...Half.
Upwords is another cool word game that is "something" like scrabble. Except the tiles are stackable...so If the word was "tear" and you had a B you could make it into Bear (and then if you had an s add that on the end to make Bears).
Pretty fun.
As far as strategy games go, chess I couldn't ever really get into. Maybe if I found someone I really liked playing with I might take the time to learn all the ins and outs but idk.
Stratego I do like quite a bit. A tiny bit more guesswork and I like the educated guess concept more than pure strategy.