Approx. 35 tries. Very nice level. While there is indeed only one path that gets anywhere to close to 194, it's quite hard to see at first glance - takes some analysis/bashing around to become clear. Two decent tricks, to be found exactly where you'd expect them :p
~40 tries. Excellent level - I've always wanted to see something like this! Solving it was a bit frustrating because I had to keep juggling all the possibilities in my mind, and I'd keep thinking of new ones halfway through. But that speaks to my own muddleheadedness, not the level. It's great :D
This took me like 30-40 tries, lol. I have no idea why this path is faster than any of the others that get me 2-4 off, but it's a great challenge and well-designed all the same. Classic ybbun stuff.
35 tries. I was doing something really unnecessary that I thought was a shortcut for most of that time. Will agree to the main 2-cut being quite clever, but not sure if the humdrumness of the rest of the level outweighs its good.
5 tries :p But the only reason I got this so quickly was because I actually have a level in my unpublisheds that feature exactly the same sort of trick, but not so elegantly constructed. This is cleverly made, well done.