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May 2012
There are many solutions, some of which have quite a few interesting symmetries, like Joël Bleuse's solution (note the place of the 7-s):
1 8 3 2 5 9 7 10 4 6
2 5 10 9 7 1 6 4 8 3
5 3 8 2 6 1 7 10 9 4
4 9 10 7 1 6 2 8 3 5
3 8 4 6 1 7 9 10 5 2
6 4 10 7 9 5 2 3 8 1
Matej Kollár even wrote a nice tool http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkollar2/symmetry-helper-1/ and used it to find a nice symmetric solution.
We think that for any even n>3, there is a solution for n permutations of 2n-2 elements, but we don't have a proof for it.
If you have any problems you think we might enjoy, please send them in. All replies should be sent to: ponder@il.ibm.com