The "Tut" part isn't the first at the top, because convention demanded that any sacred portion, such as the name of the god, be shown at the beginning. The "Tut" part is the little bird in the center-right with the two little "upside-down bowls" to its upper left and lower right. It's a little chick, I believe, and I've read somewhere that his boyhood nickname was "Chickpea".
But let's take a look at that sacred-name part at the start. The "Amun" part.
That looks like the game-board for the game Senet, with its markers or "men" lined up across the top. Below, I'm showing the game Senet in its Internet version from the Egyptian section of the British Museum, and it's fun to play. You do need Adobe's Shockwave Player though, and a 32-bit browser, because it doesn't work in 64-bit, so says Adobe. I believe, because I've got 64-bit Win 8.1 going here with it..... But here's the game. It's played in a reverse-'S' pattern, and the first one off the board with his "men" wins. There's rules, of course, but the British Museum website will be happy to explain those. I'm just trying to prove that part of Tut's name includes one of the most famous board games in old Egypt - everybody played it. Does it remind you of any modern ones?
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