Codenames 26

[WarriorKnight]

KNIFE, duh.
I also like SWITCH for Switchblade.
3rd is probably HELICOPTER.

[DaveV]

KNIFE, HELICOPTER, SWITCH are my top three. There are other possibilities, but I'd have to be talked out of those three.

[Bobchillingworth]

Knife and Helicopter for sure. Maybe lock after that, as in combatants locking their blades together, or King as a reference to guillotines or the Sword of Damocles or King Arthur.


Post spoiler edit: missed Switch, prefer that as a third word.

[Aurorarcher]

Point to KNIFE
Point to HELICOPTER
Point to SWITCH
PASS

[superdeath]

Knife is RED
Helicopter is RED
Switch is RED

Blue team is up

[El Grillo]

NAIL	WALL	WAKE	LITTER	BEAR
KNIFE	LOCK	SPOT	DAY	TRIP
APPLE	BATTERY	OLIVE	PASS	PLANE
JET	SWITCH	SPIKE	LIFE	TAIL
TAG	ATLANTIS	BALL	KING	HELICOPTER

Teleportation 5

[JR4]

That is an ambitious clue.

Teleportation could easily be a reference to a game. Is there a teleportation mechanic in Mario Cart?

If so, I could see SPIKE,and BALL as obstacles in that game and then you can teleport away from a SPOT (perhaps even with a JET?)

Is there some teleportation mechanic in Magic the Gathering? I could then see LIFE as well.

Or maybe I`m waaay off the mark.

[Azoth]

What an unexpected clue!

Let's see. How does teleportation work? LOCK on to life signs, TAG the destination SPOT, then PASS through the aether. It's quite the TRIP.

I dunno. It all feels very speculative. The only thing I'm confident about is that we should avoid PLANE and JET, because if they were among our words, we would have been given a clue that was much less... esoteric.

If I had to pick an order, it would be SPOT/LOCK/TRIP/PASS/TAG.

[shallow_thought]

Teleportation is a quick way to take a long TRIP
To teleport off a planet, you need transporter LOCK (if I remember my Star Trek)

Aaand then I get stuck. Friday evening wine brain.

Ooh. You PASS through things when teleporting.

You Teleport to ATLANTIS through a stargate in the eponymous TV series.

I'm not seeing why Teleportation not Teleport BTW, although there may be no particular reason.

[Mardoc]

Oof, that's a tricky one.  And remarkably ambitious!  There's got to be some reason for teleport not transport, so I think that rules out at least plane and jet.

Agreed on TRIP, LOCK, for sure.  I can see possibility in any of ATLANTIS / PASS / SPOT.  

Honestly with a clue this ambitious I want to go backwards.  Here are all the remaining words, with those I want to rule out marked with a reason:

NAIL - Unrelated
LITTER - Unrelated
BEAR - Unrelated
LOCK
SPOT
DAY
TRIP
APPLE - Unrelated
OLIVE - Unrelated
PASS
PLANE - Almost opposite, plane is very much about travelling including intermediate space
JET - Same as plane
SPIKE
LIFE
TAIL - Unrelated
TAG
ATLANTIS
BALL
KING - Unrelated

Ok, after doing that, I find the pattern that my gut wants is against concrete tangible things.  Teleportation is very much a conceptual step-skipping ethereal word, and much closer to a verb than a noun.  Possible exception of Atlantis - although even there Atlantis is mainly rescued by being imaginary.

Strongly disagree with JR4's method, I hate going for two-step clues.  Almost always if a spymaster intends you to think of things related to Kart, he will clue Kart - not clue something that makes you think of Kart. You can maybe make an exception for when Kart would be too close to a word and be illegal to clue.  Plus in the particular instance, I don't think there is teleportation in Mario Kart - all the movement is either visible or given an excuse, like the cloud fisher guy recovering your car from the abyss.

So all in all, I would vote for probably in order TRIP / PASS / SPOT / LOCK / ATLANTIS.  I'm only super confident in TRIP, can't decide what order I prefer the others in, and I could be talked into swapping some of them out for others.