How To contains the following chapters, with each chapter exploring a range of solutions, both plausible and absurd, to a particular problem:[1][7][8]

How to Jump Really High

How to Throw a Pool Party

How to Dig a Hole

How to Play the Piano

How to Make an Emergency Landing

How to Cross a River

How to Move

How to Keep Your House from Moving

How to Build a Lava Moat

How to Throw Things

How to Play Football

How to Predict the Weather

How to Play Tag

How to Ski

How to Mail a Package

How to Power Your House (on Earth)

How to Power Your House (on Mars)

How to Make Friends

How to Send a File

How to Charge Your Phone

How to Take a Selfie

How to Catch a Drone

How to Tell if You’re a Nineties Kid

How to Win an Election

How to Decorate a Tree

How to Get Somewhere Fast

How to Be On Time

How to Dispose of This Book

In between chapters, there are a few short answers: How to Listen to Music, How to Chase a Tornado, How to Go Places, How to Blow Out Birthday Candles, How to Walk a Dog, and How to Build a Highway. After the index appears How to Change a Light Bulb, drawn on one page in the style of a comic strip.