i need help with a riddle!!!! five ropes and one lighter?

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okay so you have five ropes and one lighter. it takes each rope an hour to burn but they burn irregular so half of it could burn in 59 mins and the other half in 1 min.
how can you tell how long 15 mins has been?

you dont have anything like a watch Or anything like that and you are not allowed to count in this riddle.
 
I know the two ropes and a lighter and you have to tell 45 mins but I don't know that one.
 
this is morbid but, does hanging yourself take about 15 min? otherwise can you use the sun?or does this mae sense; light the ropes frm both ends and the middle and when they're done that's 15 min?
 
This is the 2 rope version.
You have two ropes and a lighter. Both ropes burn 1 hour, but they burn irregularly. How can you measure 15 minutes?.

Light both ends of the first rope and one end of the second rope at the same time. When the first rope burns out, that would leave 30 minutes on the second rope. At the same time the first rope burns out, light the other end of the second rope. It will burn out in15 minutes.
There you go.
 
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